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Comment by Koper

This is the new legendary staff, which I just data mined from the PTR build 14040.. I believe we're the first site to ever show its stats =)(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Koper##DELIM##

Comment by Treskol

It is, interestingly, BoE

Oh good god, the thought of this on the Auction House

Comment by ssjheero

Item Level 404: Staff not found.

Lore:

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest is the legendary staff that will be introduced in Patch 4.2: The Firelands, aka Molten Core 2: This Time, It's Personal. After Malygos' death, the Blue Dragonflight must decide on a new Aspect in order to take on the power. The two candidates are Arygos, Malygos' son and an advocate of isolation, and Kalecgos, former raid boss within Sunwell Plateau and advocate for reconciliation with the other races. No points for guessing who wins.

After slaying a Molten Lord within the Firelands, you are shown an obscured future where Azeroth burns, but whether it does or is saved hinges on a mortal (you). In the course of trying to find out why the future is being obscured, you meet a dragon named Tarecgosa in the Nexus, and the two of you discover the Twilight Flight within the Nexus. Realizing something is horribly wrong, she sends you to warn Kalecgos. Before Kalecgos can leave his post, however, your raid must stop Volcanus from completing a ritual that would ignite a branch of the Nordrassil and set the world ablaze as shown at the start of the questline. After defeating Volcanus and recovering the Branch of the Nordrassil from the Firelands, the two of you head to warn Tarecgosa.

However, several blue dragonflight rebels ambush the two of you, and prepares to destroy Kalecgos, but Tarecgosa sacrifices herself to save him. Kalecgos saves her life by binding her soul to you, but the binding is not permanent, and must be strengthened with materials from the Firelands. After the binding is complete, you then take Tarecgosa's form to attend the draconic council, and thus are directly responsible for the choosing of the new aspect. After Arygos realizes that he won't be Aspect, he reveals his allegiance to Deathwing and storms away. Upon defeating Ragnaros and procuring his heart, the staff is completed and imbued with power thanks to Kalecgos, and provides a permanent home for Tarecgosa, who will be your friend and companion up until the Emerald Dream expansion comes around and you abandon her for quest greens.

Who Gets The StaffThis is the only legendary DPS caster weapon currently attainable in the game. Dragonwrath's approximately a tier and a half above Firelands gear, and on the basis of the sheer amount of stats alone will be best in slot for about every caster. The proc, Wrath of Tarecgosa, and the abundance of hit will make it a DPS staff, as she will duplicate your harmful spells and allow you to take her form. The proc has no internal cooldown, so it is useful even for DoT classes like Warlocks and Shadow Priests.

Whoever in your guild is getting the staff is something your guild leader should probably work out before you start Firelands, but here are some ways to determine who gets it if he can't decide:

It will be good for ALL DPS casters on basis of stats alone, so saying "This is better for <Class>" isn't helpful.

This will take a guild effort to assemble the mats and get all of the quest shards. Remember, Firelands has only 7 bosses, so it will take a while to get all of the drops. If on average 140 Seething Cinders is gained each full clear of Firelands (on 10 man), it will take a good two months in order to complete step 2 of 3, on top of the time spent learning the bosses and getting your Eternal Embers. Expect spending four months to get all of the materials to craft your first one.

Therefore, this should go to your most loyal and trusted raiding DPS caster of any class, one who won't quit the game or drop the guild while gathering the materials or soon after.

If there are multiple loyal and trusted candidates, decide who gets the first in a mutually agreed and fair way. While I don't like /rolling, if they agree to the outcome, let that decide. Your guild can also have fun with this by having them write a five-paragraph essay or something goofy. Even in relatively friendly guilds, being inconsistent with this matter can cause a lot of headaches and drama. Avoid it by making it clear and transparent what your plans are at the start.

DO NOT choose to give it to a player who issues an ultimatum to give it first or he will leave the guild. Such childish behavior shouldn't be rewarded with a symbol of your guild's dedication.

Good luck to all guilds who will be working on this.

This version doesn't seem to be the final version, as it doesn't have any nifty on-use effects befitting a legendary.(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by Lorgra93

Omfg

Comment by kongronnie

oO why crit, give haste or mastery xD

Comment by adrenalize

The BoE status is something we can pretty much ignore at this point due to the data-mined nature of this.

A couple of points.

At this point, the proc hasn't been added, and I would assume there will be one as this has been what defines legandary weapons. The 3 red Sockets, and the massive 404 Item Level also shows a willingness to see this Staff through at least 2 tiers of content, as that would most likely be the Ilevel of the Normal modes in 4.3(See Skullstealer Greataxe for Normal mode Ilevel weapons in firelands)

All in alll, it looks like it will be desired by all types of casters, whilst Mages/Locks will no doubt love the Crit/Hit and Pure Int on this thing for example, a Boomkin, Spriest and yes, even the unloved elemental Shaman would not be able to sniff at those stats.

It also seems that it is made for reforging some of he least desired stat off, which will most likely be hit. This could add a fairly substantial 140 haste as well.

Before passing any judgement, and also before the inevitable arguments about who will get this begins, you can argue all you like, most guilds have already marked this to a single person who can weild this, regardless of thier class. It will always go to the one person in a guild who it would have the most impact with.

Comment by wtbanonacct

They BETTER add a cool effect...

Comment by Kazlehoff

my boomkin is sadface at the lack of haste and the overabundant hit.

Comment by Viridis

I think it was actually MMO-Champion, but hey, it's not a competition right?

Comment by PalGenadich

Bliz, please make it for healers too. We hate hit and like haste, ok?

Comment by Kanariya

The stats look really good, and hit is something no one should ever be complaining about, especially since this amount will let us return some of our already reforged hit on gear back to normal. The jokes about its item level are going to be amusing too. =p

Comment by Kazlehoff

@healers

sorry, blizzard has stated specifically that its a DPS weapon. i know i know.

if it makes you feel any better, my feral druid will never see a useful legendary.

Edit: Why the down rating? its accurate info. Blizzard said at Blizzcon that this is a CASTER DPS weapon.

Down rating the truth doesn't make it less true.

Comment by Furydeath

Sorry you had you legendary please go to the end of the line and wait 5 more years.

Comment by Furydeath

Sorry you had you legendary please go to the end of the line and wait 5 more years.

I'd hope it last into 4.3 cause you HAVE to already clear the raid in normal, killing rag, to get this staff.

Comment by Bozanimal

I wouldn't completely discount the BoE designation of the staff just yet; Blizzard has been focused on Legendaries being a guild achievement, so the ability to craft the staff and give it to the appropriate guild member might make sense.

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Comment by onad

I really hope this isn't the final version. Since this was intended for all casters and since it is obtained via quests an not as a flat out drop (at least that is the gist I get) I was hoping it would be like Atiesh where you could pick from multiple version with different stats on them. This would allow each caster class to pick a version that best suits their class/spec without having to reforge.

Also to the person above complaining about hit being on the staff...there is a clear reason Blizz did this. They want this to be a dps staff. Period. Healers, we had our time in Wrath. Let's leave this one to the dps in the guild.

Comment by onad

I think the inclusion of hit on the staff is to say once and for all that this is a dps staff. Period. We had our time in Wrath.

Comment by Necromorta

Actually, I miss the simple Atiesh style. No glitter, just awesome, wonderful effect. That was the best staff i've ever had.

Comment by Dormyln

HUNTAR WEPPON

(But in all seriousness, Great staff for any caster, really. While a caster DPS might benefit the most from it, no doubt it will be BiS for healers too. It all depends on your situation or guild)

Comment by morvain

As a reminder, please keep all the irrelevant trash comments of "OMG I WANT" or "IM FIRST IM LINE TO GET THIS BE JELLY" to a minimum.

We can make this world a cleaner place, one comment at a time.

Thanks!

Comment by morvain

As a reminder, please keep all the irrelevant trash comments of "OMG I WANT" or "IM FIRST IM LINE TO GET THIS BE JELLY" to a minimum.

We can make this world a cleaner place, one comment at a time.

Thanks!

Comment by Jamonycajal

Where´s the proc?In Ragnaros' legs

Comment by Furydeath

Atiesh had two things tho it gave a portal...to no where at the time, and had an aura like thing depending on the class.

Comment by Kazlehoff

LEGS.

Comment by armaroth

Because it's obviously a hunter weapon.

Comment by armaroth

Because it is obviously a hunter weapon.

Comment by Pyrocosm

Fire mages will love this, seeing as our Mastery is meh, and with the new non-periodic-only ignites, crit has officially become important again. And that's great, seeing as it was originally designed to be the spec's keystone stat but was surpassed by haste and such because of periodic ignites and the munching that came with them.

Comment by Pyrocosm

Fire mages will love this, seeing as our Mastery is meh, and with the new non-periodic-only ignites, crit has officially become important again. And that's great, seeing as it was originally designed to be the spec's keystone stat but was surpassed by haste and such because of periodic ignites and the munching that came with them.

Comment by bluesoda

This staff can (and most likely will) have an actualy intellect value of 609, since the caster's will probably fill it with +40 int gems, and then the +30 socket bonus, until epic gems come out (probably in 4.3) which, as of current datamined stuff, will increase the value of the intellect to 639 (50 int per red gem, 30 int socket bonus). That is a HUGE amount of intellect, considering the other staffs in the PTR have 460 intellect.

*Edit* The intellect on the staff has been increases, meaning my numbers are lower than actual value. Increased all of my numbers by +19 intellect to match the recent change.

Comment by Kanariya

This really is not a BiS weapon for healers though. No spirit, too much hit, crit rating? Why would a healer who doesn't have a caster dps offspec bother spending a lot of time, effort and money to get this when it will not benefit them as much as a heroic Firelands heal wep?

Comment by rayrn

soo...

whats the gold cap again? XD

Comment by kmo999

They BETTER add a cool effect...

I'ts called PTR. You really think they will release a legendary with no unique proc?Edit: added quote as my comment was put at the bottom, instead of reply,

Comment by chiane7

Lylirra has already stated that this will NOT be BoE, it's just an error:

"Oh! And just to clarify (since I saw this asked in another thread), Dragonwrath will not be BoE."

Comment by Yukazi

And with this weapon, they have broken the normal cycle.

Vanilla items were under ilvl 100BC items were under ilvl 200WotLK items were under ilvl 300Cata items.. are breaking ilvl 400.

Comment by Shokture

Check it out. Apparently they released the spell effect that the staff will grant you:

"The staff lets its holder transform into a blue dragon."

AAAWWWWWW YEEAAAAAAAAAAA.

Comment by TDonovan

For some reason I cant seem to find the item level on this? Is anyone else having this problem?

Comment by Oxida

Unconfirmed and unsure where I saw it (might have been a previous post here); ilvl 404

Edit: It was here and on the item information itself... 404

Comment by Kaneiac

Unconfirmed and unsure where I saw it (might have been a previous post here); ilvl 404

Edit: It was here and on the item information itself... 404

It was a joke. 404 is the error in web browsers for "Not Found."

Comment by Seriph

Okay, quite simply healers? You guys got Val'anyr last expansion. We casters haven't had a legendary since the end of Vanilla, and we only had it for a couple months before the expansion came out, making it obsolete, and THEN it was removed from the game entirely! Give us mages our shot in the spotlight for a little while!

Comment by Nethris

The most important part: How to get yours!Contains spoilers btwAs a pre-requisite, you must have cleared the first tier of raiding (nefa/al akir/cho gall). Probably normal mode will do.This has been removed as a requirement. Instead, you must kill a Molten Lord inside Firelands (trash mob) to pick up the quest.

The great staff duplicates destructive magics, and also bestows upon its wielder the ability to transform into a member of the Blue Dragonflight.

Also, please keep in mind that some items on the PTR are still considered "works-in-progress," so certain aspects of their design -- including stats, on-use abilities, and appearance -- may change before the next patch goes live. :)

Oh! And just to clarify (since I saw this asked in another thread), Dragonwrath will not be BoE.

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Comment by Taenamyr

Hunters have the Bow out of sunwell.... so the only classes that don't have a legendary they can use are Ehn Shammy and Feral druid... yeah a nice Agi legendary would be nice.

And I agree, I think there should be a stat like haste or mastery instead of hit to make this appealing to more classes... not just healers since most casters now have alternate ways to get hit in their talent trees or glyphs...

Comment by Ryan256

Ok... there seem to be a number of people QQing that the new legendary is for caster DPS. Lets recap folks.In classic the legendarys available were:

Now yes there were a bunch of legendaries available during the last part of the Kael'thas Sunstrider encounter in The Eye. However those could not be removed from the raid instance, and thus they don't really count.

Caster DPS has not had a legendary available to them since classic and even those are no longer attainable. Its our turn.

Comment by Cusco

This staff is Blizzards way of saying "Are you sure you're not going to pick the game back up?"

Comment by Ryan256

The problem is in the feral druid class. They are the only class that sees any real gain from a 2-handed agility weapon. Sure hunters might find it useful but would be far better served with a ranged weapon since they aren't supposed to melee.

Comment by Ezzet

Reforge the 324 Hit > Haste. Some hit and some haste, Pure win! At least for as a shadow priest.

Comment by Hordeicide

You had Val'anyr. please let us have one legendary to ourselves.

Comment by PaladinWat

My staff is a good one.

Comment by elionor

The great staff duplicates destructive magics, and also bestows upon its wielder the ability to transform into a member of the Blue Dragonflight can you say awesome

Comment by Nienor91

Oh my... Oh my God, I'm in love.I'm in love with this staff and myself for being a fire mage too! Intellect with 3 red sockets for intellect, and an intellect bonus, with hit, crit and spell power. I say again, I'm in love.

Comment by popeofdope

I think that this awesome looking stave should have a special ability. (e.g. shadowmourne's cool str butt thingy)don't know; it just doesn't feel special enough.

Comment by Wirxaw

Of course! We need a HUNTAR WEPPIN! Our HUNTARS are so overpowered, their melee strikes are deadly. They are topping the dps by raptor striking! Hurray to the new hunter legendary melee weapon! Ok, stopped laughing.And if everything above was true(God forbid...), druid would have a chance. Do you think Blizzard would make items for a specific class\spec? Like Atiesh for frost mages? Warglaives for assasination rogues? Thoridal for warriors\rogues? Val'anyr for druids? (Sarcasm ended)Yes, I see a lot of casters who are whining aboit tons of hit and lesser crit. Cant disagree, making a "cappable" stat major is a bit....reforge-obliging. And yes, it would be 5\6 when fire mages will get the staff. So what? It will surpass any other heroic staff greatly, regardless of spec. If there is a kickass caster dps in your guild - it can have it regardless of crazy hit.

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Comment by Tuarceata

Vanilla items were under ilvl 100BC items were under ilvl 200WotLK items were under ilvl 300Cata items.. are breaking ilvl 400.

Hardly surprising. TBC epics (largely) started at 100, Wrath epics at 200, Cata at 359. At current rates T13 is going to be i397, Heroic T13 i410.

Comment by Tuarceata

Shinaku

And with this weapon, they have broken the normal cycle.

Vanilla items were under ilvl 100BC items were under ilvl 200WotLK items were under ilvl 300Cata items.. are breaking ilvl 400.

Hardly surprising. TBC epics (largely) started at 100, Wrath epics at 200, Cata at 359. At current rates T13 is going to be i397, Heroic T13 i410.

Comment by Fenitarn9

Getting a boner looking at a weapon from a fantasy game?Go see a doctor.

Comment by Eighjan

OK, another Legendary weapon for hardcore Raiders to drool over...

BUT; when are they going to add a feature to the game - Raid Browser/Finder, mebbe - that allows for players who aren't in Raiding Guilds a chance to get to complete the quests to get said weapons finished; in my case Shadowmourne -- "Legendary Weapon Quest Progress Finder", with no Raid Lockout...?

Upshot; throw away the worthless items because there's no way in the game to 'sign-up' for Legendary Weapon 'progress runs'...

Oh, yeah - why not make it a Feat of Strength (rather than a straight Achievement) for anyone who's able to get more than one of the legendary Weapons on one character, and a one-time World First Feat of Strength for anyone able to get all of them... seriously...

Comment by Eighjan

Additional - how CAN one character get all of the Legendary Weapons, when most of them are either (i) Class-specific and/or (ii) no longer available (to newer players)...?

Nice one for Blizzard to include for datamining, when it'll be impossible to complete.

Comment by pagusa

Well it's a hunter weapon really.

Comment by Naesala5

We had a staff in vanilla for a few months before TBC >_< staff was useless after and it even got removed from the game Completly. Now I want my staff >=D

Comment by TheDrpepperx

Vegeta what does the scouter say its ilevel is?ITS OVER 400!WHAT 400! Theres no way that can be right!

Comment by Vlad

Actually I believe mmo-champion had the stats available before 10th of may. But hey, being 2nd isn't bad either!

Comment by wrathandpride

Okay healers, stop complaining, you had your Legendary. As for Ferals well, I hope they give a one-hander or something in the future.

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Comment by Lobsangludd

Wrath of Tarecgosa - When you deal damage, you have a chance to gain the Wrath of Tarecgosa, duplicating the harmful spell.

I hope for affliction/shadow that the duplicate spell is a fresh dot or a single full duration of the said dot returned in damage. Otherwise a single tick of say corruption v's a conflagrate... or a deepfreeze would make this lackluster for dot classes :(

Comment by VikariusRobo

Item Level 404: Staff not found.

LOL! Great reference there with the 404 - Item Not Found. ;)

Comment by Lagun

1. post message in the room 2. LOOK IT OVER 3. dont report anything, i might get in trouble :) and 4. Have fun!

Comment by wickedland

Over 9000 is an unbelievable understatement.

Comment by pyro0231

For resto druid /reforge hit into haste and it's a healer weapon =X

Comment by Antss

Caster DPS has not had a legendary available to them since classic and even those are no longer attainable. Its our turn.

When will feral druids get legendary then? They should like make 2 versions of this staff. Caster dps and Agility one

Comment by bluewyvern

Otherwise a single tick of say corruption v's a conflagrate... or a deepfreeze would make this lackluster for dot classes :(

Where's your logic there? If you have smaller damage ticks and the same DPS as somebody with bigger damage ticks, then it's safe to assume you're getting more of them, correct? Now, if the proc is a base % chance on any spell damage hit with no ICD, then it doesn't matter whether you have more small DoT ticks or fewer big DoT ticks because you will also get more procs.

For example: Let's say the proc has a 10% chance on spell damage to duplicate that spell damage equally. Caster A has a dot ticking for 25000 damage every 5 seconds. Caster B has a dot ticking for 5000 damage every second. They both use the staff in a fight which is 1000 seconds long.

Caster A: 200 ticks, 20 procs.220 x 25000 = 5,500,000

Caster B: 1000 ticks, 100 procs.1100 x 5000 = 5,500,000

Hence the damage is equal and neither caster benefits more or less from the staff than the other in this case. Of course, the proc may re-cast the dot, or there may be proc effects from having the extra dots, and these will change the value of the staff procs for different classes.

Comment by BrutaluzWow

Haha 2 Mages 2v2 arena with this staff would be epic...

both frost nova

start casting Frostfireboth staffs proc

4x frostfires in the face.

Death.

Comment by myke20xx

because, its a huge difference between items/stats from wotlk to those in cata.

Comment by Tradu

Nope, healers don't need spirit on everything. And this will definately be a pretty good item for healers as well. I'm not saying healers should get it before DPS, we shouldn't, but that doesn't mean its terrible for us(int is lovely)

Comment by hellomynameis

Haha 2 Mages 2v2 arena with this staff would be epic...

..yes, "Epic" is the right word to use when two mages use Legendary weapons. :-P

Comment by TecXero

Blizz likes to take turns with the roles for legendaries and healers just got a legendary mace in wrath. That doesn't mean healers (besides paladins) won't be able to equip it. Just don't expect them to make the secondary stats that desirable for healers and I doubt the proc will benefit healers at all.

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Comment by mrachnyi

Well casters had a legendary staff in Vanilla already. I think it would be fair to make the staff agility version for Feral Druids and Hunters.

That staff was only available until Wrath. Casters have had no legendary that has remained available. Hunters have received a bow.

Comment by Bastere

Because this is Boomkin staff if no one has noticed.Moonfury

Comment by gurgo

u think this is moonkin weapon only because it's proc is arcane bassed ? think again 10% vs 25% but it doesnt really mather because it wont be affected

Comment by zesilo

How has no one mentioned this?Pre-BC, MORE THAN ONE LEGENDARY WAS RELEASED.BC, MORE THAN ONE LEGENDARY WAS RELEASED.Wrath, MORE THAN ONE LEGENDARY WAS RELEASED.Cata, ONLY ONE (thus far).So quit complaining that they never made you a legendary, it'll come later in Cata most likely.

Comment by DANEgerous

Then reforge it

Comment by Meviuz

For now, could shamans take quest for it? Because I'm wondering if 5 classes won't be too much for one legendary. Atiesh has 4 classes without shamans.

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Comment by Ryan256

Considering that it will take the combined efforts of all members in a well organized raiding guild to obtain this staff, I can't see it being a good incentive for undergeared players that have been away for a while to return to WoW.

Comment by Valor229

When I read this on the warcraft website, they said something about equipping it gave you the ability to turn into a blue dragon? Maybe I read it wrong, but if I didn't, that would be a very awesome effect.

Also, anyone that says this is a useful healer staff is a fool. The stats clearly make it a DPS staff, as clearly stated numerous times on this board and by the designers themselves.

Comment by Furydeath

For The Horde got to see a new one on a GM, had a little more int and stam on it and 2973 spell power and the proc was Wrath of Tarecgosa.

Comment by Lethorio

Recently hotfixed to boost the stats, include the proc, and (here's the big one) swap the 256 crit on it to 252 haste.

Comment by Toragen

I find it amusing how this staff has higher DPS as Shadowmourne. Imagine, Warriors rolling around, roflpwning $%^& with this staff. If that's going to be possible, I'm sure people are going to troll with it, getting it on Warriors and @#$%.

Comment by KingOfKings

I'm not sure if I'm too fond of this weapon having a higher top-end damage than the level85 version of Sulfuras.

Comment by bluewyvern

(For after the change, the staff used to have different stats) This staff has been updated in a new build. It now has haste instead of crit, a larger amount of spellpower, int, hit and stamina. It also has the proc 'Wrath of Tarcegosa' listed and described above. Amusingly, it also has 948 weapon dps and a 3.3 speed, outdpsing all of the melee weapons as well.

Though, taohu is right - the proc from this is a bit... insane in PvP circumstances. Methinks it will either just not work on players or have a reduced effect, unless they change it. Most of the other legendaries had procs which were not rare but were not totally gamebreaking either. In contrast, this would have to be a fairly low proc chance to be balanced in PvE, but on the other hand, it would often mean a one hit kill in PvP when it went off. So, my guess is they will increase the proc chance, and rip people off a bit by just reducing the damage.

Comment by ThamiorHunter

another weapon for hunters.

Comment by Glica

I'm curious as to how this proc will work on a Shadow Priest, duplicating a channel spell, reapplying a dot? Not sure how that's going to work.

Comment by ritto

I wouldn't want this in a raid, it might 404 on me.

Comment by zesilo

@toragen No, that would not happen. Shadomourne has overall more top end damage AND the stats with it make it even more dps than it is. No, this staff does not have more dps than shadowmourne melee wise.

Comment by Random0147

It better have yellow flavour text!

Comment by fabriciomind

BUILD 14107: Blizzard took the opportunity to shatter people's hope with this hotfix and properly set the staff as "Bind on Pickup".

No donuts for ya!

Comment by shadowkil

Due to the fact that Wrath of Tarecgosa effect duplicates spells as arcane damage we can see this staff being even better for arcane mages and balence druids. 2 Moonfires in lunar eclipse, yum.

Comment by chaoscurtis

I honestly don't care if I'm a hunter or not, I'm going to try and get this damn thing either way.

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Comment by Furydeath

Dragonwrath, of course, has a really awesome on-use ability, and we hope that's reason enough for people to keep it around even if it's not always their equipped weapon.

Comment by darthamyus

It is, now, BoP. I guess they changed it in the last build?

(It's also totally a mage staff, not because I play a mage and my guild master is probably gonna read this. :D

Yes, I'm kidding.)

Comment by Viriya

So should a tank legendary be next? Something like a customizable weapon like Atiesh for all tank classes.. or maybe even an uber trinket that can be used by all tanks would work.

Comment by Furydeath

Yes, we need a legendary trinket hopefully they put that one Ch-tun was going to have but got removed.

Comment by Enrika

There is only one big disadvantage... 366 hit rating

Comment by genjors

will the effect also duplicate effects like the damage from SW:D?

Comment by xphenomen

inb4 arcane mages will oneshot anyone on arena.

Comment by ddaypepper

What Blizzard should do is make a Legendary Polearm that looks like some decked out scythe for agility classes.

Comment by Strudels

How is that a disadvantage? All casters need an obscene amount of hit rating for raids; this just means you don't have to reforge for hit in some places. Balances out in the end, unless you just intentionally want enough hit to 100% hit a level 90 NPC.

Comment by drwill87

I'm suprised no one has mention how great this is going to make elemental shamans stacking mastery in 4.2. The lack of shield sucks, but other than that.... look at all the cool toys we HAVE and are getting come 4.2!

Elemental Mastery Stat - Double Proc Spellcast

Staff - Double proc spellcast

I stack mastery on my pvp gear and have a 31% chance to proc a second spell as Elemental... This staff would make it oooooh so much better.

:D

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

You just had to make that 404 joke in addition to making a sweet lore post.. thus depriving me/us of making a funny.. you broke my heart dude.. clean through the middle!

That said, kudos on the 404 joke (first) and thanks for the info!

/tip hat

Ps. I just thought, the staff duplicates spell-effects, you made a dually awesome post, it could not have been any other way. The universe conspired to make this happen, it's written in the stars!

Comment by telpin

and then add 30 since +10 each would be a small number for epic gems and +20 each @ 60 is more likely

Comment by Raemsie

And so far, non-healing shamans and non-healing druids have been the only ones without a legendary. The one from firelands gives boomkins and ele shamans a legendary, so Enh shaman and Feral Druid are the only ones without accessible legendarys today.

(Please don't say Hand of Rag... Any guild that gave a shaman that was retarded and probably lost a fair number of warriors because of it. And Atiesh WAS NOT A FERAL WEAPON despite the large amount of FAP on it.)

Comment by Raemsie

And so far, non-healing shamans and non-healing druids have been the only ones without a legendary. The one from firelands gives boomkins and ele shamans a legendary, so Enh shaman and Feral Druid are the only ones without accessible legendarys today.

(Please don't say Hand of Rag... Any guild that gave a shaman that was retarded and probably lost a fair number of warriors because of it. And Atiesh WAS NOT A FERAL WEAPON despite the large amount of FAP on it.)

Now, since enh and ferals don't share weapons, there's gonna have to be both an agi 1hander and an agi staff legendary next. Then probably a tanking legendary (haven't had one since vanilla either)

Comment by Raemsie

And so far, non-healing shamans and non-healing druids have been the only ones without a legendary. The one from firelands gives boomkins and ele shamans a legendary, so Enh shaman and Feral Druid are the only ones without accessible legendarys today.

(Please don't say Hand of Rag... Any guild that gave a shaman that was retarded and probably lost a fair number of warriors because of it. And Atiesh WAS NOT A FERAL WEAPON despite the large amount of FAP on it.)

Now, since enh and ferals don't share weapons, there's gonna have to be both an agi 1hander and an agi staff legendary next. Then probably a tanking legendary (haven't had one since vanilla either)

Comment by Raemsie

No. That does NOT count. It may have been feral BiS, but it was not accessible for any feral. Any guild clearing naxx in vanilla wouldn't have a feral with them, and if they did they would not give Atiesh to them over a caster.

Comment by Furydeath

Ya no druid could have done naxx at level 70 right?

Comment by Raemsie

They could have done it at 70, but it was not BiS or easily accessible even then. Naxx was probably the hardest instance at any gear level until Sunwell came out.

Edit: And even then, it's not a feral weapon, and it wasn't designed for ferals. It doesn't count towards feral's legendary list. Healers COULD use this one, so does it count for theirs?

Comment by NosTermite

can't you read? BOP not BOE FFS.

Comment by SenthaiOverlord

I've read on the site that it will "allow you to take the form of a member of the Blue Dragonflight" so I think there's a pretty good chance the use effect would turn you into a blue dragon/drake, probably allowing flight at 310% too.

Definitely something that would allow the staff to be kept well beyond Cataclysm.

Comment by Mortammer

I would try to just ignore the staff all together. First off, more than likely only one person in each 25 man raid group in a guild will get it. So if you have three 25 core raiding groups only 3 people will get it in that guild. Second, most guilds wont even be able to do the requirements so that leave a select few guilds. So even less people will get it. Third, The people who get this staff would have put quite a bit of time into it that most people don't care to spend on a weapon on a game that will go obsolete in just a couple patches or an expansion. But keep your hopes up and good luck to you all.

Comment by Furydeath

You mean legendarys take time, lots of money, and lots of work? I would have never guess that i just thought we'd go buy it from a vendor for 3,000 VP or something.

Comment by Darlack

You know what?

I'll just ignore this and finish my legendary hammer. I am a paladin, after all.

*sigh of "I am so never going to have a raiding guild..."*

Comment by George14

Will the quest chain be available forever, like Sulfuras or will it become like Atiesh again?

Comment by WickeDanneh

It bugs me that the stats are 779 and 459, not 780 and 460

Comment by Furydeath

Lets have the staff get put into the game BEFORE we start talking about removing it.

Comment by Qwerg

OMG I WANT THIS STAFF so badly I can even attempt to troll an anti troll comment!

Comment by Qwerg

OMG I WANT THIS STAFF! So much i can troll your antitroll comment!

Comment by Qwerg

OMG I WANT THIS STAFF SO BADLY! So badly I can troll your anti troll comment!

Comment by Blackriver

A legendary based on a character who did not exist until this patch and also died in this patch. I guess you could say the staff does have the power of the four good-aligned dragonflights, though.

Comment by tobindax

There is a respectable probability this will be best in slot until Cataclysm expansion ends, however, it is very possible it will be surpassed by epics dropped in the 13th tier.

Comment by Locotoro

I have a theory regarding Wrath of TarecgosaIt says duplicating the harmful spell, which i think is referring to Wrath of TarecgosaI don't think it casts a duplicate of your last spell, but rather procs a different all new spell that Tarecgosa probably casts when you confront her.Thoughts?

Comment by superhbman

Yes, I believe Metzen himself answered the question at Blizzcon.

Tanking legendary: 19019

Comment by gryzbear

its cuz ur OCD

Comment by gryzbear

for a JC caster u will have 459+67+67+67+30 = 690. since most casters who will want this are already in the midst of rerolling to JC

Comment by sitgarath

This staff is a little disappointing for a legendary item with a pretty high cost quest line.

I think lots of people will settle for http://ptr.wowhead.com/item=71797#comments instead of investing the time to get this thing made. It just seems that a legendary item should be higher than 404 -OR- keep increasing in power until the next expansion.

It's going to suck when 4.3 comes out and some nublet gets a normal boss drop that blows this out of the water.

Comment by killashandra

BOP

Comment by Odaiko

The original PTR build was BoE. That was fixed fairly quickly.

Comment by Lobsangludd

You forget it's going to double as an on use mount so dispite the typical gear replacement over-time blizz still give it longevity as a form of travel.

Comment by GullaDaPwna

hit and haste....seems pretty boomkinny too me >.>

Comment by GullaDaPwna

he said that player gained the wrath buff so yeah it'd hit for about 120k

Comment by GullaDaPwna

So....That's alot of stats....I want this for my druid but i'm not gonna get it ever since only 1 person per guild can get it...and the GM's a mage...FML

Comment by GullaDaPwna

Nope only one person per guild will get it...so for guilds that aren't close together....you're gonna have trouble when your GM's a mageor any caster that uses haste for that matter...

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Comment by Deathpact

can anyone confirm if this would proc with a smiting disc priest, would be quite intresting with the proc and maybe even be worth for a disc to get

Comment by Kaata

Just to clarify, Thunderfury was a tank weapon.

Comment by Ganrokh

Only one person in the guild can get it? Where does it say that?

Comment by Ganrokh

Only one person in the guild can get it? Where does it say that?

Comment by Ganrokh

Strange. I never saw anything that said only 1 per guild.

Comment by cubelord

The synergy between the proc and Ele shaman Mastery has been pointed out before- but here's a question:Anyone think that it can proc off of a proc?example: Shaman casts Flame ShockShaman casts Lava Burst Staff procs, smacking the mob for a solid 40k or soEle shammy mastery procs from the staff proc while casting a lightning bolt

So, he'd get 3 spellcasts from a single GCD.Is this possible? way off?Or, could it get even better and have procs from procs from procs from procs?UNLIMITED POWAH

Comment by Furydeath

Dragonwrath is designed to be DOT-friendly. Simply put, it has a chance to copy each tick of a DOT spell. There is no internal cooldown, since we want it to be good for warlocks and Shadow priests.

Furthermore, the proc chance is adjusted favorably for pet specs that derive a significant portion of their DPS from pets.

Our goal is to tune Dragonwrath in such a way that you can give it to any caster without anticipating certain classes or specs getting a bigger benefit than others.

From a blue earlier today.

Comment by Opkier

Dragonwrath is designed to be DOT-friendly. Simply put, it has a chance to copy each tick of a DOT spell. There is no internal cooldown, since we want it to be good for warlocks and Shadow priests.

Furthermore, the proc chance is adjusted favorably for pet specs that derive a significant portion of their DPS from pets.

Our goal is to tune Dragonwrath in such a way that you can give it to any caster without anticipating certain classes or specs getting a bigger benefit than others.

No cool down, and will proc more for specs with a permanent pet, which I would assume includes frost mages.

Comment by radgh

We will likely see the additional damage being represented by the spell Wrath of Tarecgosa. Just speculation, but I'm sure blizzard has thought about the possible exploits of talent-procs etc. Imagine a fire mage doing a single fireball, having it crit, shooting a free fireball which also crits, proccing a free, instant-pyroblast.

No. I'm positive Blizzard has thought this through. The additional fireball won't be a fireball at all. It will be Wrath of Tarecgosa, with inherited damage and possibly spell effects.

The real question is, can duplicate spells like or ? The spells with insanely high spellpower coefficients, or high synergy with other spells (Combustion works wonders with a crit from pyroblast).

I cannot wait to try it out. Well, I can. I'm not going to spoil this on the PTR - I want to experience first hand, with my raid group.

Comment by Elementkirli

I'm hoping enh shaman get something legendary next.

Comment by Ashvael

Considering the latest blue post on the staff, I'm pretty sure every combustion and flame orb tick (I know flame orb isn't a real dot, but somewhat close) have the chance to proc the staff. DoTs iself aren't duplicated but every tick is able to deal the extra legendary damage.

Comment by Waterseeker

While this staff IS designed to be a dps staff, a guild with few or no eligible dps who can use this, or who can afford to make more of them, may want to think about giving extra ones to a healer.

The sheer amount of spell power and intellect gained from this, combined with the possibility of reforging bunch of the hit to a more useful stat, makes this item rather useful for a healer.

Comment by Ganrokh

Strange, I never saw anything that said that only one person got it per guild. If the guild is on top of the content and progression, there's probably a good chance they'll get 2 complete by the next tier.

Comment by ThalliaGreystorm

I didn't read through all of the comments, but... I'm curious... Disc Priests... Smite and Holy Fire healing... yes, I know, it's a caster staff, no one bite my head off, just hear me out. :P

It does say "duplicating the harmful spell." So... if it were to proc off of Smite... I wonder if it does proc a Smite and if we'd get that back in healing... so those that are Shadow and off spec Disc, could, technically, use it for both. If it actually worked that way.

Comment by MASDERCHEEF

I just shat bricks... but then I got depressed cause I saw that it had stam and int...

Comment by edwin312

Before you all condemn me and say "Shamans dont use staves" , just think

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Comment by Seyonne

I would put the +67 int gems into it too. 1) The staff will never ever be deleted, even if there are like 5 more expansions (unlikely, unless WoW follows Everquest) 2) It will make it more awesome. Duh. Why put awesome gems in a less-than-awesome staff? 3) If somehow there ends up being better gear than the *!@# I put the +67 gems in (whereas the staff will never be bested, unless Blizzard/Fate decides to !@#$ us over) then gratz, I have just wasted the +67 gems and will have to pay to make new ones.

Comment by Illume

obv hunter wep

Comment by Kazlehoff

kind of stupid to take the "clear T11" off the requirements list. feels like more "Catering to casuals" again. although i dont see a casual getting this, ever.

Comment by wildjoker69

To be honest, Caster have had a legendary, even if it was a while ago. The has yet to be a Feral druid legendary in the game. Id love to see a Feral/Hunter staff/polearm.

Comment by Argo

this is a test

Comment by anaklin

I think that Fandral's Flamescythe can be partially considered as legendary weapon only for feral dps (not tank)

Comment by Kazlehoff

No, its not orange. therefore its not a legendary item. it has an effect on druids in cat form. legendaries have some proc that makes them more powerful that other weapons (shadowmourne, Thunderfury, the Azzinoth set, Sulfuras, etc) the display think on the flamescythe, while pretty awsome, does not, under any circumstances, ever, make it on par with a legendary. for bears, for hunters, etc, its just another staff.

Comment by Kazlehoff

Please Copy Starfall.

Oh! Or Typhoon! double Knockback FTW!

Comment by mark211175

Can anyone tell me, how hard the questline is to gain this item? do you need a elite raiding guild too accomplish this quest. or is a pug party enough so you can do it solo. is it hard too get or do you need too spend a lot of time farming

Comment by zanatorix

Arcane shot!

Comment by zinnin

Obviously the legendary staff doesn't actually exist because it has the 404 not found error built right in.

Comment by Kazlehoff

^ that too.

Comment by Kazlehoff

this joke has allready been used sry

Comment by Nomiconn

Yeah because wow, they are totally the only spec in the game that benefits primarily from crit.That being said -- It has Haste and Hit on it now.

Comment by Zizzix

No doubt, perfect stats for a Hunter of any specc.

Comment by Attis

Holy s***!

Comment by dvb77

Please forgive my ignorance, but why are all the comments talking about the staff as though only 1 person per guild can attain it? Is that the case? I had just assumed that should your guild be close/dedicated enough you could complete it again and again (as painstaking as it may be) for whomever wanted it or that the quest items would drop for all members on the quest (i.e Hearts of Flame for all with the quest)

Comment by Heartblossom

One thing to say: WANT IT!

Comment by tobindax

Probably 200,000 to 400,000, requiring a guild to pitch in. It's not the end of the world, doable. However, the problem would arise when a noob would put it up for 1 copper by mistake. The horror.

Comment by jedijeb

I don't have a lot of gold, but I will do... things... to you, no questions asked or complaints given, for this staff on my mage. Just in case you decide you wanted to roll on this with your sad little toon, I will take you to places you could never imagine for this thing.

Comment by tobindax

Do the legendary fragments drop if one is not on the quest, or is not on the particular quest line point?

Comment by throthing

Oh we tanks are so under appreciated...we havent had a legendary as of 4.2.Yet...Blizz has given every other type of role one of their own.YOUR FORGETTING SOMEONE!Sorry for the rage. Im a warrior. Cant help it. :3

Comment by Eekwibble

Several points people seem to be missing.It would be advisable if before you post you check the details and changes that have been posted and altered here in the last 2 weeks.1. There is an internal cooldown as of 4.3. Thank you sas148.2. It now has haste, not crit.3. All caster DPS can use staves and this was BiS for all of them when it was released.4. PTR tests confirm the 'duplicate spell' is not a true copy but an extra amount of arcane damage equal to the damage of the original spell.5. It has a chance to copy each tick of a DOT, it doesn't automatically copy every tick or only 1 tick.6. It is just as good for casters that rely heavily on pets for DPS since the tuning is changed slightly for them.

Comment by tippysan

hot damn, i can sell this for 71g

Comment by Trovsk

Yeah, now all they got to do is give the caster or they will become tanks too. =o

Comment by Trovsk

Yeah, now all they got to do is give the casters Misdirection or they will become tanks too. ;D

Comment by gazom

All of you guys going on about casters not having a legendary weapon..What about us lil Enh shams ? :'(

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Comment by devistator100

Nice try troll, legendary items can't be disenchanted. You've never been able to.

Comment by Seanbevan666

HERE IT IS! 404 ITEM LEVEL HUZZAH!

Comment by olawangen

Damn, cant be disenchanted... :P

Comment by Evighetensmorke

Sadly, you have to be a caster in order to receive the initial starter quest after killing the Molten giant dude in Firelands.

Comment by Andreasristing

This... is... psycho.

Comment by thomasuwoo

I was wondering, if an AA priest uses this, would the duplicated harmful spell (holy fire/smite) Also proc the AA?

Comment by Sticer

Isnt it possible at all that 2 guild members have one?

Comment by Zabraxxis

Started building mine yesterday, I have the sands and 7 Embers from the first three Firelands bosses, guild is rushing me for realm first, should also mention, I'm a Disc preist.

Our Mage is incompetant.

...

Yep.

Comment by Roguery

@Siked: Given the nature of what the next expansion is going to be (Emerald Dream), that might not be to far off. I'm actually expecting a legendary for ferals (and hunters as well as a result).

Comment by gonzuluz

That duplicates the spell cast, so it is a spell.

Comment by vicariousink

It's a matter of time, really. If you think about it, you need to get 25 of the Eternal Embers, which only have a certain drop rate (Not too high, but not too low). So even if you were lucky and assumed that you get 1 per every other boss in Firelands, you are looking at: 3 - 4 per full clear. So:

3PR - 8-9 weeks of raiding. 4PR - 6 to 7 weeks of raiding.

That's just for the Embers as well. So if you want to get more people to get them, you are looking obviously at double what you would for one.

Hope that helps.

- Vicarious Ink

Comment by Myauheg

I must have this staff. In my association all agree that I should first gain all will help me. Because I always helped everyone for a legendary axe.

Comment by Thanatos420

404 error: Staff not found....

Comment by Teenka

You are wrong. (not anymore :P just leaving the comment here for reference)

It is 25x (Eternal Ember) needed not Living Ember(Living Ember). Living Ember is boe material for crafts. Eternal Ember is bop that also drops off bosses but only if someone has the quest. Compared to, for example, Shadowmourne, its a cheap legendary. Yes, you need to buy 3 Sands of Time (one costs 3k, so 9k overall) but 25 Primordial Saronites were anywhere between 20-50k.

Comment by Maxillary

please god i would love it if my mage friend got a message on the screen when she first goes to equip it.

'error 404 staff not found'

Comment by WickeDanneh

Error, Item LvL 404 was not found.

Comment by Shadow2spare

But everyone complains about mages being over powered. With this staff people would just hate mages even more. Therefor mages SHOULD NOT get this staff unless they can deal with the complaining :)

Comment by Lunasira

Just out of curiousity, since I don't see it covered anyone here and no one else knows the answer, can only people who can use the staff pick up the quest chain for this? I know it's probably a nub question but I want to find out so I don't have to fight with other guildies over a staff if they can't even use it

Comment by astoon

Damn, an Arcane Blast crit with that... Damn.

Comment by Gizmonitor

I would like to point out to the WoW Armory entry for the staff. It says that it's ilvl is 397, however it also says that it will transform you into a blue drake. So the data mined transformation spell probably isn't only for the quest line.Armory

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Comment by CalaelenDT

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest has been updated with an additional bonus, it now has an on-use effect that will transform the wielder into the visage of Tarecgosa, which is a flying mount modelled after Tarecgosa. In addition, the item level of the Staff has gone down from 404, to 397.

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Comment by Potatosock

What a boring, uninspired model for a legendary. This thing looks like it should've been the reward from a quest.

Comment by Firedawg451

While I completely agree that this staff should go to a faithful and dedicated guild member there is another very important factor that may be getting passed over.

If your main tank has currently or even has intermittent problems with holding aggro over your top DPS caster then you may want to factor the ramifications of giving this beastly weapon to said caster however deserving they be.

Either that or replace your tank with one that can cope. Just something to keep in the back of your mind when selecting a canidate.

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Comment by Drutar

But this staff hopefully won't be immediately replaced by the first quest you finish in the next x-pack...

Comment by rapt0220

Actually, very early on there were some hunters who started stacking SP to buff arcane shot for BGs. It was extremely OP with giant instant attacks and promptly nerfed, but it did work for a little bit!

Comment by jozy123

0/10... bad troll.

When I got here your comment was already at 0 rating.

Comment by Maultavius

Wow. Item Level 404, this will be over powered for all the dps casters.I'm just asking.... Can everyone in the game get this or is it just for some classes? I play a hunter and I'm willing to do all the quests and all of that, just to say to all casters: Haha, I got a better weapon then you ^^. ( And I want the OP mount :P )

Comment by Zarupta

And warriors everywhere cried out in anguish...

Comment by notsuoh

Can anyone confirm that the staff is only obtainable by one person in a guild, or can multiple people do it?

Comment by davidbasara

eror, item level 404 not found >_>

Comment by TomatoSauce

Named in honor of Tarecgosa, the blue dragon that sacrificed her life for Kalecgos. To find out more about her you'll need to do the quest chain for this legendary.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##

Comment by damgnomes

Reverberate on a stick?

Comment by northanui

O wow i just love all the ppl posting all this garbage about "oh don't make posts saying what class this item belongs to" (< this obviously came from a healer btw) WHY NOT?

this is OBVIOUSLY a dps caster weapon only and i mean ONLY. NO healer should get this.

Just on the first page there's a green post voted up like +50 that says ppl shouldn't state what classes these belong to. Why do ppl vote such garbage up? What, are they all healers hoping deep down that they'll get this if they deny ppl the ability to say that this is a DPS caster only item?

It pisses me off when classes keep greedily wanting a weapon that simply isn't designed for them. This is dps caster only and healers can screw off.

Comment by wintermadness1

Because mages weren't OP enough already...why does Blizz keep giving legendaries and buffs to the facerolling 2-button-rotation classes, while ignoring and nerfing the crap out of the classes that actually take intelligence to play?

I want to see a set of legendary daggers for mutilate rogues (don't even start telling me about the Warglaives, rogues shouldn't have to settle for playing a crappy spec if they want a nice weapon).I want to see a set of legendary fist weapons for enhance shamans, they haven't gotten anything close to being realistically usable.I want to see a legendary agi staff/polearm for feral druids (NOT hunters, they got Thori'dal). I know Blizz doesn't want legendaries to be statsticks or "weapon-as-trinkets," but it's not fair that one spec will never get a legendary because they inherently don't technically use any weapon.

Comment by shamansFTW

Since when is the elemental shamn unloved? In my opinion shamans are highly underestimated in both pvp and pve other than the fact that everyone thinks the only hing they are useful for is pvp healing, but on to my main point:

I know many shamans who, like myself, switched from Elemental to Enhancement with 4.2 not b/c ele was getting nerfed but b/c Enhance was getting buffed although i have no intention of switching back to Ele i know of many who are swtching back and many more who plan to simply for this legendary. The sad thing is do people not understand its called a Legendary for a reason lol?

Comment by shamansFTW

I can see it now, a level 85 shaman with this staff stacking mastery and int firing up to 3 lava burts in one cast it will be legendary

Comment by TheCuter

Oh but you're wrong, if you obtain a 310 % mount, you will automatically obtain the skill for flying at 310 % speed. So if this is a 310% mount, it would, theoretically give you the 310 % skill!

Comment by Trileon

Where is my Feral Tanking Legendary!Casters already had one,Bears and Kitties have never had one! :(

Comment by Trileon

So, Do us druids not get any legendary because we will only share with hunters?That's bull dude.

Comment by venjur

I am pretty sure this is not true either. I had the Purple Proto on my Paladin (an old 310 mount) and never had to learn anything from a trainer. When the change went through I just had the highest riding skill when I logged in. I have since gotten the Purple Proto on my Shaman and I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think upon learning the mount from the mailbox I was granted highest flying as well, no trainer needed...

Comment by Ranhwa

HUNTER wapon

Comment by wintermadness1

I don't care what dps rogues with the glaives got, my point was that there's no reason one spec should get a legendary that another spec can't use. With every other legendary, if a dps class could use it, every spec could use it. Even if a combat rogue with the glaives could put out more dps than a mutilate rogue in full BT gear, sans glaives, that wasn't my point.

I don't care if your arcane mage isn't OP, that probably means you suck at playing it. Think about a frost mage with this staff...they're the OP spec anyway, and you know as well as I do that everyone plays frost. I'm not "rolling with stereotypes," I'm speaking from my own experience in the game. All stereotypes are based in fact, even if they're not always true; why would everyone say mages are OP if they secretly weren't? Maybe everyone should just "roll a mage, then see for urself."Then we'd all agree with you, right?

Comment by wintermadness1

Haha good point about spriests, I agree.

But why should feral druids never get a legendary just because they don't technically use their weapons? I tend to agree, even though I want a legendary for my druid...so if it can't be a weapon, what about a legendary relic with an appropriately awesome equip, use, or proc? Like something with the ability to turn you into a druid of the flame (literally, not just like the vanity item) or something, I'm just spitballing here. My overall point is that, even if they can't have a weapon, ferals shouldn't be left out of the legendary club just because of their combat style.

Comment by Grandine

...and lo, thou hast found the most proper place for Chimaeras Eyes (and their replacement from the second half of Cataclysm.

Comment by Gorta

He talk about facerolling 2 button rotation classes, then he mention mutilate rogues and enhance shamans aren't in that category... Okaaaaaay...

Comment by Natureboy10307

I got one ember so far last night and i could buy the 3 Sands of time, but the odds are i would never get this staff...But i wont stop trying, it almost seems impossible for me, being a balance druid and not being in amazing guilds, so far mine has downed 1 boss and were attempting 3 others, but still, very hard to get = (.

Comment by aelis89

Purple proto drake comes from the yearly achieve What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, therefore it gives you 310% riding speed before they changed the riding skill and after they changed it.

Comment by Cyphonner

The proc will go great with my arcane shot.

Comment by Archh

OMG I WANTIM FIRST IM LINE TO GET THIS BE JELLY

lol

Comment by Pugsly

Thank god. I'm a sucker for this legendary &*!@. I'd probably of ended up trading my kidney for it.

Comment by Pugsly

Thank god. I'm a sucker for this legendary #$%^. I'd probably of ended up trading my kidney for it.

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Comment by AssultTank

Yeah, my guild run two raiding groups, so we're actually making two of these. One for our boomkin and one for a holy priest... Let's just say group 2's people weren't too happy about the RL's decision there... Especially with a mage and a lock in the group...

But if you do have two groups, making two of these at a time is an option.

Comment by Leishai

I made a list of gimmick items which you can use to transform your character into a different form or race or even gender to play around with. I didn't add items like weapons that provide a procc with a transform effect that only lasts a few seconds even though I know about them. My intention was to list all items with controlable transformations. Feel free to let me know if I missed an item!I want to thank all the people below my lists who pointed out items I missed! This list grows thanks to your effort as well! Thanks guys, you're great!

Comment by Edoralf

Sweet...zombie...Jesus!

Comment by Vulcantorix

Your GM' is smoking crack lol, what on god's green earth are they thinking giving this staff to a Holy Priest , it has ZERO spirit , HIT rating , and only procs off DAMAGE. I would ask your GM to visit a Dr. and have his head examined for brain damage...

Comment by George14

Ever heard of dual spec?

Comment by George14

Holy Priests with Dragonwrath are like Warriors at 85 with more intellect than magesbh, if a holy priest ever got this staff, and i am aware of dual spec, then they need to delete that character. Fast.

Comment by VikariusRobo

I can assure you that Firelands,Will only be used as a farm.Now, tell me, lads;When did you last bother farming a legendary?

4.2 is out on live!New legendarys about!And what do they call it, people,They call it Dragonwrath!

A whole new legendary,A legendary for casters since Naxx40We won't be boosting noobs, Or the lazy doods,To get this awesome legendary

A whole new legendary,A dazzling sight I shed a tear at,But when ninja looting happens,You're my comforting passion,I'm glad we have a whole new legendary!

edit: turns out the mechanics of the staff weren't as clear cut as it seemed. The proc does cast a second identical duplicate direct damage spell, the only time the Wrath of Tarecgosa comes into play is when a DoT gets duplicated.

It also seems that the proc, for all intents and purposes, counts as a second player. This is important because it seems that this second player/proc doesn't share your cooldowns on things such as Lightweave/Power Torrent/Trinkets... In fact if I understand correctly, it seems to ignore the CD's entirely.. Hopefully someone can clarify further how it interacts with procs. If this indeed is how it works, I highly recommend leveling tailoring for Lightweave, pronto!

the above was fixed.

Comment by Interest

Cooldown: 1 second, 500 milliseconds

Ohu Wowhead.

Comment by Sazukai

So much QQ every which way.

These quest chains are for a weapon, that weapon should, admittedly, go to a caster DPS. But so what? You'd be raiding even if there wasn't a legendary, surely? Just like, relax and have fun. It's a game, not a job. You do these things together with your guild, to have a good time. Sure, there are some nice shinies to spice it up but still... Just loosen up.

And no, I am neither a caster nor a healer. Melee damage-dealer, kaythanx.

Comment by Furydeath

Why is this under mounts and not weapon/staff?

Comment by Malvenue

Can we please keep this thread to comments about the staff or how to obtain it and stop the meaningless arguments about what was available to whom in the past?

Comment by Furydeath

Last time i looked we got a legendary Staff not a mount,

it's a mount with a 3.3 speed xD

Comment by natedog54

This staff may cause.

Comment by Ggoddess

Does anyone know if the proc effect can proc from dot ticks or just the initial spell cast?

Comment by clavarnway

No one will know until somebody has the legendary staff.

Comment by Omniwolph

Seems Diivil from DREAM Paragon has it now, atleast that's what the blog states on their website.

Comment by Noxze

I love how you can still click "Find upgrades..." on this page!

"Your criteria did not match any items."

Comment by mindburned

How can i get the staff?I found out there is a quest but I really don't know how to find and complete.

Comment by mindburned

The problem is, if it can be used without being equipped.

Comment by Baldmurder

Anyway, the staff has a lot of haste on it, if I just reforged hit into spirit, I'd be very happy to have the opportunity to heal with this. I also love the idea of the dragon form, (though I'll admit it looks rather... odd). >_>

To bad that you are missing out on this piece of text on the weapon:

Equip: When you deal damage, you have a chance to gain the Wrath of Tarecgosa, duplicating the harmful spell.

Its not ment to be a healer weapon, as healers have the ulduar mace as legendary item.Since old naxx-40 has been removed there has not been a dps legendary for casters. (with the exception of the legendary during the Kaelthas encounter in Tempest keep.)

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Comment by Sabatiel

Next legendary should be a dagger made from Deathwing's own scales. Rogue's need a proper legendary. No one goes combat anymore.

Comment by CrusaderFelbane

I take it you have CDO?

Comment by Terrassen

I bet there won't be many old- school players that would want this legendary, due to the bad proc based on the amount of time spent to complete this. Not to mention the "unique" dragon mount to this staff, which has been reskinned too many times to count. If it wasn't such a dead boring proc and if they made a completely new model, you'd go for it.

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Comment by iGoogoo

its so epic! Happyjojj in Ragnaros realm got it, he transformed into a giant dragon! it has a large scale effect its really cool ill submit a screenshot :-)

notice that it said its a mount in its tooltip

Comment by Lyriana

Reposting this from the official forums where it was first written by Siiz:

So I've been getting hammered in tells about how this staff works. I've been doing some testing this past day and how it works is pretty simple, but the procs from DD spells and DOTs are different. You cast a DD spell, let's take icelance for example, the staff procs and instantly casts another icelance . The damage is applied instantly(there is NO travel time on the proc), but you can see the graphic of a second icelance traveling towards your target. Here is an example of the proc:

Instead of coping the spell like it does with DD spells or instant, DOTs are different. If the staff procs on a DOT tick, instead of casting the same "spell", it will cast Wrath of Tarecgosa, and match the damage of the DOT. For example:

I tested the staff when I had 2 FoF charges up. I cast icelance and consumed my first charge of FoF, the staff procced and instantly cast another icelance and consumed the second FoF charge. Here is the combat log for this event:

I'm still working on the proc rate of the staff, and to see if the proc rate could be higher for frost given that it's a pet spec. I'm also still testing how it works with DOTS.

Flame orb/FFO don't seem to be benefiting from the staff, probably because I don't think it's considered a direct damage or DOT spell.

If your "copied" fireball crits it will trigger ignite, and ignite also benefits from the staff proc.

PLEASE realize this is a huge work in progress and many things I have not tested yet. I am trying my best to test a lot of things so it will take some time. Be patient =)

Some new things that I've noticed is that if your arcane blast gets copied, it applies a stack of ab to you (ie: you can go from 1 to 3 stacks of AB).

If a target is hit by your initial blastwave cast and procs, it will trigger another blastwave + if you're talented into the flamestrike talent, it will spawn another one as well.

Flamestrike is considered a DOT and procs Wrath of Tarecgosa.

That brings up a question – how does it work with channeled spells?

Also, is there any visual when a dot procs it?

Channeled spells are no different than DD spells, it will add an extra missile if it procs. It is actually quite funny when you get multiple procs. Yes there is also a visual effect (you will see an extra missile). For DOTs the animation is the same as an Arcane Blast hitting a target.

I did have one question though. If it were to proc from an Arcane Blast it would deal Arcane Damage. Would this Arcane Damage be affected by Arcane Specialization, or more importantly Mana Adept and/or Arcane Power? VPLC from Ragaros deals Nature damage and scales with the two prior.

Thanks for all the info so far!

The proc from arcane blast is simply the same spell you just cast. It is affected by everything (talents, procs, power gains, etc)

I logged 30 minutes of each spec for people to look at, I know this is not a big sample size, but to be honest the tests I do related to numbers won't be accurate enough. Here is the log to dig through.

Ragnaros phrase while doing last part of Heart of Flame quest:/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\RAGNAROS\\VO_QUEST_42_RAGNAROS_EVENT_01.wav")

Comment by Goats

Does anyone else besides me have any concerns of how retardedly powerful this staff will be in rated battlegrounds and arenas?

Incoming free gladiator titles to mages!

Comment by Arreador

Seems a little unfair to the other classes that the damage is arcane and as such gets more benefit from mages arcane specialization, isn't it?

Comment by Arreador

Oh, thanks! Sorry, english is not my main language, i didn't get that when i first read the owner's post. >.<

Comment by Towerarcher

I wonder if you can cast transform spell instant like druid flight from ?Can you use it while falling?

Edit : Apperantly it has 1.5 sec cast time.So you cant use it like flight form.

Comment by Mochiccino

I was just thinking the same thing accept anyone can use it for the mount aspect of the staff. As a mount collector I'll gladly give up a arm and a leg for it but as of now I rolled the wrong class.

Here is hoping I get to ride my guild mates.

Comment by Eternity

This staff will be best in slot until 5.0, except if 4.3 item ilevel is higher than expected for heroic Deathwing.The short log shows a proc around 10% of the time for all three specs, which is a flat 10% dps increase due to how it is working.

I guess this is the way they want legendaries to be, a 10% upgrade.Some history about power of legendaries:

- for Sulfuras, i can't really tell. But mace spec gave rage at the time and sword spec was just a 6% proc and could proc on proc (had 5 consecutive proc once !) which in the end was just insanely better, also weaponskill was supreme king (reduced glancing damage) and the Obsidian edged sword was superior to it in a pure pve situation. its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was bad.

- TF was a 100% upgrade for a dw warrior (yes there was some :P), a 30% for a rogue, and a 10-15% upgrade even in the end of wow 1.0 but it was extremly hard to obtain on a specific player. The intent was a tanking weapon but it was usualy used for DPS class. its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was just insane both ways.

- Atiesh, honestly i cannot tell, i only saw it on tbc beta, it seemed rather weak to only buff 2% crit for the group (or something alike). its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was very bad.

- Azzinoth, here (for rogue) a 2% upgrade on oh only, a 8% upgrade with mh only and a 20-25% with both of them. its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was not really that good.

- Thori'dal was as i recall from logs on wws a 15-20% upgrade, hunters could break the 3k bar on bruta with it but being on the end boss of the final tbc raid, it was prolly as common as atiesh. its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was bad.

- Val'anyr was extremly variable due to the nature of its proc, it was around 2-4% (disc priest) to 30-40% for an holy paladin (if i'm not mistaken, not sure here). It was Bis for 3 tiers 3.1 3.2 .3.3 which is incredible, you could obtain it before finishing the tier in HM. Its ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was very good.

- Shadowmourne was around 5-10% upgrade but was obtainable at the end of the tier in HM and there was no raid tier after. The ratio "power/difficulty to obtain" was however probably the highest because you could see it everywhere.

- Dragonwrath is around 10% upgrade but unlike shadowmourne who had a static str proc, which would have been supplanted if it was on second raid tier (258 ilvl instead of 284) here it is a real 10%. I can't really talk about the ratio yet but it doesn't sound extremly hard.

Comment by Rexak

Dont post nonsense. For example, the hunter bow was nowhere near a 20% dmg increase. In fact some argued that the other bow from sunwell was better as you could use the epic arrows with it.

Also, Dragonwrath is not a flat 10% dmg increase. It is random, as the proc is random. It could not proc for a minute, or it could proc serveral times.

Comment by flippedeclipse

I've got a question about the completion of this questline (apologies if the question's already been answered).

Currently on my realm there is a huge ghost version of Tarecgosa floating over Stormwind. She's like.... the size of the Cathedral District. I'm not sure if someone just got the staff, but I was just wondering why the dragon's there lol.

Any answers to sate my curiosity?

Comment by Dogguss

Congratulations to Rylea of Critical Mass guild on US Stormrage.My wife and I were lucky enough to witness the event on 08/22/11.

Comment by Draftdodger

How fast is the mount , more than 310% right? cause i seen one today and suddenly it disappeared 0.0

Comment by Ignazio

2 frost mages icelancin' with Fingers of Frost... with the duplicate-dmg bonus... niiiiice

Comment by Thejuicebox

It will not be allowed in Arenas / Rated BGs apparently. Behold: The power of QQ!

Comment by hellomynameis

Hehe, I saw a guy from the top raiding guild on our realm yesterday sporting this staff, in the mountform.. and.. I really hope they revise those gfx, because it made all of Orgrimmar lagg.

It was the size of 3 buildings, and had a ring of frost(mage spell)-ish look underneath on the ground.

Edit; nvm, apparently it was just the completion of the staff event. :)

Comment by dreadlox

What the fork? Am the only one who wonders how can such a JOKE happen in WoW? How it is even possible to add STATS to a MOUNT........ thank god i dont play this game anymore

Comment by Strifecloud

56g as usual vendors rip you off

Comment by Juso

well id say blizzard wanted the mats to be from vendor so the reagent prices wouldnt skyrocket too high

Comment by Juso

There should be a legendary for ferals but it would have many versions of it so it would be staff/polearm and be useful for healers furals melee! (thats atleast what i think) oh and no, it shouldnt be good for hunters! hunters get legendary bows not poles!

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Comment by Malzahar

The use on this can be used in bgs. Quite funny to look at the walking dragon inside bgs =D

Comment by Eraduril

Joke's on you, moonkin form didn't exist in vanilla.

Comment by Eraduril

Joke's on you, moonkin form didn't exist in vanilla.

Comment by denstus

5 people have this on my realm Cho'gall. as of today

Comment by Bl4ckSh33p

Strenght is not for Ferals, it's for Warriors, Deathknights and Paldins. :)(Hotfix/Patch changed strenght=2 AP to strenght=1 AP for Druids so Agility is better, it gives 2 AP)

Comment by Ariomenna

I heard that the essence drop rate on heroic has been nerfed to drop the same amount that comes from normal. Can anyone confirm this?

Comment by Furydeath

Well so much for 10 man guild's getting this thanks to the new change.

Comment by OverZealous

This is the first mount to ever have stats, gem slots and a duplicate-spell effect, amirite?

Comment by coolight

The legendary staff has become....*puts on sunglasses*...a legend

Comment by Jalanorian

This staff will be LEGEN-...wait for it...(and I hope you're not lactose intolerant cause what comes next is:)-DARY! Legendary!

EDIT: Well, apparently not everyone appreciates a good HIMYM reference.

Comment by Destler

Personally, I think having a legendary item that can turn you into a flying dragon was a bad idea. Now everyone wants it, no matter what class (screw the staff, we just want to turn into a freakin dragon.) Hopefully, to make it fair, every following legendary after this staff will allow you to transform into something.

Comment by bexan

Believe the term you're looking for is OCDThis was in reply to a comment saying

I take it you have CDO?

Which has since been deleted

Comment by Lindentree

I take it you have CDO?

Believe the term you're looking for is OCD

That was the joke.

Comment by tb76

My precious <3

Comment by blackstaff2

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Comment by dragonelements18

I know but he never took into account that this may be useful to a smite healer.

Comment by lockbox

It's also a big, red "run away from me or taste death" flag for the opposing players ;)

Comment by gnorkthedark

This item is listed as a flying mount on wowhead rather than a staff due to its use effect, and if you do a search for staff's you will not find it.

Comment by Warrioreye

My main's a mage. Blizzard, when you make such an awesome staff like this, it makes me just want to kill an orphan because my server isn't exactly the most populated with dedicated raiders.Think of the orphans.The poor orphans.

Give me the !@#$ing staff.

Comment by hellomynameis

Legen..

wait for it

...DARY!

Comment by Draikan74

I am sure posting on WoWhead will get Blizzard's attention :p

Comment by Zulecockinas

From a Blizzard interview:

J. Allen Brack, Lead Producer of World of Warcraft: There's one more piece which is an announcement that we're releasing a rogue legendary weapon. Specific for rogues, so it will be a dagger. There will be some sort of quest, traditionally we've done these quests that players need to participate in order to create the legendary weapon in this case we'll be focusing on rogues that will try to make that happen.

The Escapist: Do you know what it's called yet?

Brack: We do not?

The Escapist: How does it fit into the lore?

Brack: We haven't decided on the name and how it's going to work, we just know that we really want a legendary weapon to come out of this tier and we really want it to be a rogue dagger. That's really all we know at this point. As time goes on we get a lot more lore, a lot more story, an "in" to the creation of all the legendary weapons. We really did a lot with the legendary axe that you got out of Lich King and then we've had other legendaries with the Cataclysm tiers that have.

Comment by Ponk

how big is ur pkenis?2 inches? ur a virgin? LOLOLOLOLOL

Comment by iZallen

To reconfirm Information, This Legendary is not a staff. It's a Mount.

Comment by Kazlehoff

The way acquisition of this item has been handled between 10 and 25 man has been ridiculous. Some 25 man guilds have 3 staves. All 10 man guilds are still waiting to finish there first staff. the devs really should have thought more about parity for the staff.

Now, Obviously, they didn't want 25 man guilds to have to change to 10m to maximize staves, but they should have followed through with that and made it so 10 man guilds dont have to change to 25m if they wanted a staff before 4.3.

EDIT: lul@ all the 25H Raiders Rage down voting this. down voting truth doesn't make it not true! :3

Comment by gnorkthedark

Faction change is your friend if you think you are good enough to be given this staff in a guild. Oh and your comment is going to be downrated because it basicly says "i want this staff" and thats not useful information to anyone here.

Comment by gnorkthedark

What you saw is a vision of the mount with the person who completed it riding the drake. It shows up for a few hours after someone completed the quest chain.

Comment by Problimatic

Maybe an attonement priest with a lot of bribery skills could manage to get one without raiding as shadow? :SOther than that, yeah good luck healers getting this staff before the xpac is over.

Comment by Coolyou

AWESOME!

Comment by Sas148

Those of you pursing the acquisition of Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest; please note, while on Phase 3 of the quest line requiring you to use Runestaff of Nordrassil to collect 250 Smouldering Essence (Siphon Essence), you will not be able to acquire any from Ragnaros. There isn't a body to harvest the essence from on normal difficulty and even on heroic, where there is a body after defeating him, it won't allow you to do so.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##sas148##DELIM##

Comment by nisx

Since people on my realm like to link Shadowmourne in trade alot, i made a funny script:

Comment by Draol

So here's a question. I'm going to attempt to clarify before i get flamed.

Can a hunter theoretically obtain this weapon?

Read this before you comment:

I have NO interest in taking this from anyone while this is still a viable weapon.

I realize there is not any practical application for this weapon's stats because I am a hunter and have no need for Intellect or Spell power and do not use spells.

I am asking specifically out of curiosity and the possibility of farming this weapon in the future once we're into the next expansion, both because it looks awesome and I want the mount effect.

I'm asking if a Hunter could start the quest chain beginning with Your Time Has Come. I don't know because I haven't been in Firelands at all and can't really find any information about it. Everytime I ask i get quickly derided for "lol hunterz dont use intellect nub kek".

Comment by Kazlehoff

Doublepost. whoops.

Comment by Draol

Thanks.

Comment by agmystere

Someone on Feathermoon just got this staff. The Remnants guild was the first to get it. A really cool ceremony animation over the Cathedral District, while the staff was being imbued with Taracgosa's essence. Afterwards, there was a huge, ghostly image of the blue dragon with the character sitting atop it over the Cathedral district (well, half of Stormwind if you want to get particular), for at least an hour after the ceremony. I was elsewhere, and kept seeing people asking in trade chat what the big dragon was.

Comment by guatafu

who will be your friend and companion up until the Emerald Dream expansion comes around and you abandon her for quest greens

Win

Comment by arissa

Completed this today, some helpful tips:

After the nerf, Ragnaros does not pose much of a threat (in normal, that is). You can easily survive all through P2 staying outside the group, with no healer CD's needed. I hugged for the Sulfuras Smash during Molten Seed, though. You should be able to as well.

There is no timer on the debuff you receive, but before you explode, a hellfire-like effect will start about 5 seconds prior to the explosion. This should warn you to move away.After Ragnaros died, I did not receive the fire resistance buff. However, looting the Heart was no problem. Ask your healers to spam heal you. There is no cast bar - looting the item is instant.Once you are done, report back in Orgrimmar/Stormwind. Save yourself the flight to Coldarra... which I sadly didn't.

A fun little fact about the staff is that the mount works even in areas which don't allow the use of flying mounts. Battlegrounds, dungeons... Pretty fun to see a big, shiny drake in those places.Good luck on your staff quest, everyone - it's definitely worth the wait.

Comment by Muhnophonic

How exaclty do you interact with the heart? Does it have normal loot icon or the cogwheel thingy?Reason why I'm asking, because it would be interesting to know if one could loot the heart with Loot-A-Rang.

Comment by roriiz

Is this weap good for mages?

Comment by Zorn85

So one thing I'm curious about, with the Ulduar legendary, they increased its stats to make it comparable to an item coming from 25m normal mode raids in ToC, would they possibly do the same thing with this come 4.3?

Comment by swisigah

This is just about the best staff i have ever seen and it really makes cloth classes and druids pop out from the crowd and have the title "The Badass" practicaly

Comment by Kazlehoff

To quote some show i used to watch as a child:

"If you have to ask, You'll never know."

xD

Comment by Gigasmash

Not listed as a staff.It is a magical summoning stick.

Comment by lillbrorsan

Will be nerfed in 4.3

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest: The chance for this item’s effect to be triggered has been reduced.

Guess we'll see how much of a nerf it is "soon".

Comment by lillbrorsan

Will be nerfed in 4.3

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest: The chance for this item’s effect to be triggered has been reduced.

Guess we'll see how much of a nerf it is "soon".

Comment by citrique

Apparently, the chance for the proc to occur is being reduced in 4.3.

This makes sense seeing as the current proc rate had this staff remaining best in slot until the amount of spellpower / int / secondary stats on a weapon amounted to more DPS potential than the proc, which probably wouldn't have occured until midway through the next expansion at its current rate.

ed: According to PTR testers, the current nerf is around 2-3% (proc is average 12% instead of 15%)

Silly downraters, keep being upset over the nerfs to casters. You had your two tiers of meter dominance.

Comment by duffry

Seems that (currently) logging out while in Tarecgosa's Visage will make male toons appear female on the Armory.Fun times.

Comment by absurdum

and when you put in 50% more stats from gear and dragonwrath still comes out on top (albeit slightly) that isn't at all disturbing? no other legendary would come close to competing like that.

the amount of damage that dragonwrath adds is beyond the margin of skill for most classes, a decent player with dragonwrath will make a fool out of a great player w/o. In my last guild, the two people with legendaries talked about how after they got their legendaries their mailboxes overflowed with people trying to poach them. on several guilds wowprogress pages, you could see "specifically looking for dragonwrath holders".

They created the highest ilvl (ok tie) / best itemized staff in the game. then they gave it 3 sockets, a 1-3% damage increase would have been enough to consider it a legendary but they gave it a 10% damage increase, that is absurd.

none of the other legendaries were even close, val'anyr had to get buffed to compete with items 6 ilvls above it. it had a situational proc. val'anyr wasn't a ticket for mediocre healers to get into top guilds.

Comment by Kazlehoff

While mathmaticly you are correct, 10 man guilds are still trying to get the first staff made. 25 man guilds have 2 staves. does that seem like sound right to you?

just more favoritisim for 25 man guilds. (see: extra drops in heroic 25, but no extra drops in heroic 10)

and its not 3/1 its 2.5/1

Comment by Basiclife

Why the down-votes? 404 seemed humorous enough to me.

404 Staff not found

Comment by vibiuspwn

On my realm (Nordrassil, EU), alot of people are walking around with this staff. Just saw the mighty dragon in Stormwind again a few hours ago. Congrats on everyone who got this item.

Also, isn't it a bit strange that this item is classified as "Mount", because it is a staff and it can be equipped, a mount can't be equipped in the main hand. (Or maybe you can hold your own panda in main hand when Mists of Pandaria is being released)

Comment by 898418

I don't know if the elemental shamans mastery counts as a spell if it procs, but if it does, it would be awesome to get this staff to proc at the same time and fire 4 Lava Bursts.

Comment by Fireandice6

Saw this today, Helrohir (Darkspear EU) has it, also when the guild/ receiver gets it there is an event in the factions capital city, so for the better part of this evening org was full of blue drakes and a huge drake (whose name evades me) appears above Garrosh's main building in the valley of strength

Comment by Throbb

With a very disturbing female face. Not sure if the female model is different for everyone, but mine looks like half male, half female with skin growing in the eyes.

Comment by Voidelement

Just some fun facts on the legendary staff wielder.

1) If you use Ethereal portal while in Dragon form, you will create the largest possible ethereal gate in wow. 2) If you teleport as a Warlock while in "moving" in Dragon form, you will create a super gigantic poop and green ripple to follow.

Comment by Kazlehoff

BTW its always hilarious watching my rep points and seeing "down voted" and checking to see its this series of comments, where some bum hurt 25h raider has gone through looking and down voting 10m/10h raid comments. this site is about facts. fact is, staff acquisition was handled Terribly. and using your down voting to try to bury truth shows that you are either

1: Biased against 10m raiding because """"its easier""": both have there difficult points, and there benefits. cry more.

2: Bum hurt that others have a better chance now to get the staff before 4.3 hits: cry harder.

I end up saying this on too many comments recently.

Down voting truth does not make it less true.

Comment by Tronski

Wait, why was this downrated?

I'm a disc priest and I refuse to heal if I can't use atonement where mechanics allow me to.Hitrating do free up a glyph spot.

And I'm still curious about the proc vs heals from atonement.

Comment by Skizzer

*looks at effect*

You want to do more DPS than me?...TOO BAD IT'S ME! <your name here>

sorry couldn't resist <.<

Comment by redhothottie

Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest is a legendary offensive caster staff, with bonuses that are not particularly attractive to healers.It is rewarded by an epic questline that challenges those daring enough to complete it. The great staff duplicates destructive magics, and also bestows upon its wielder the ability to transform into a member of the Blue Dragonflight. Those who complete the staff won’t be the only ones to receive a reward, though. As this task requires the dedication of an entire guild, upon completion of the staff all guild members will receive a unique non-combat pet to call their own.The staff is named in honor of Tarecgosa, the blue dragon that gave her life to protect Kalecgos and to see the Blue dragonflight's new aspect debate come to an end.

The Wrath of Tarecgosa should no longer ignore cooldowns when a clone spell procs.The Wrath of Tarecgosa should no longer trigger melee procs from trinkets and other effects.

"They wanted to hold me, to keep watch over me – a prisoner in all but name. But I will NOT be held accountable for the sins of my father. My destiny will be my own."- Wrathion, the Black Prince

The Contract

Patch 4.3 will offer the most deadly and experienced rogues the opportunity to finally play a central role in the fate of the world the rogue's way: by manipulating key events from the shadows. Players will travel across continents to accomplish crucial missions of reconnaissance, burglary, infiltration and, of course, assassination. Those familiar with the events that unfolded in the Badlands since the Cataclysm struck may recall the story of Rheastrasza, the ambitious red dragon who acquired a black dragon egg and magically purified it, cleansing it of the Black Dragonflight's corruption. While those events may lead to a more hopeful destiny for Azeroth, it will take cleverness, stealth, skill, and the help of a few friends to unravel the web of intrigue that will reveal what became of the egg... and determine the fate of Deathwing himself.

Wetwork

Rogues willing to do whatever is necessary to ignite a brighter future must first delve into the Dragon's Soul raid dungeon to begin the quest line. Those who prove their prowess within will be set on a collision course with Ravenholdt Manor and the enigmatic Black Prince, Wrathion. This shadowy figure could be the key to victory for the mortal races, but what is his true agenda? Before the truth behind these mysteries are revealed, enterprising assassins will need to fight tense raid battles against Deathwing's most powerful minions, and embark alone on perilous missions to seal the fate of the Black Dragonflight. The quest culminates in the earth-scorching execution of Deathwing himself and a shocking revelation about the true nature of the mission.

What's in it for me?

Rogues who succeed will receive a paired set of daggers that will become increasingly lethal as their bearer progresses along the legendary quest. At the height of their strength, they will be imbued with the vile essence of the Old Gods, as well as the maddened fury of the Black Dragonflight -- bestowing great power upon their bearer. These powers include a stacking increase to Agility which builds until dark wings unfurl from the rogue's back, removing the combo point cost and increasing damage of finishing moves for a short time. In addition, the wings which can be spread on command (with no combat benefit) to slow a rapid descent, allowing the rogue to slowly fall to the ground... or enact a little death from above! When it comes to dealing death, the Fangs of the Father promise legendary killing power to rogues of any specialization.

An incredible adventure and legendary rewards await. The future of all life on Azeroth hangs in the balance. Better get moving.

Comment by Voidelement

the raw arcane magic that is leaking out of the dragon form's tail is nerfed on PTR, the smoke is not as great of an effect anymore. Hope its just a glitch.

Comment by ArchetypeRuss

Just in case no one's mentioned this, should you happen to suffer the misfortune of getting knocked off of the side of the platform by a stray lava wave shortly before the fight ends, and manage to keep yourself alive until the end of the fight, you can still loot the heart. The heart has spawned at that point, and you just need to get rezzed up and you can go and grab it. You don't have the reduced damage buff at that point, so its probably a one-way trip into the lava, but it works.

Comment by Granticus

What I'm wondering is if the proc chance on the staff has a chance proc overload for shamans. If it did that is one massive DPS boost.

Comment by Eryoable

I noticed that the shaman's "Echo of Elements" talent in MoP talent calculator gives a similar proc, wonder how both effects would work together - althought Dragonwrath is then outdated of course. Wonder if they make the proc chance the same though.

Comment by Oathark

This staff is soooo EPOCH!

Comment by Dathran

It's a hunter weapon.

Comment by TheMardraum

We were doing heroic rag one night and our mage with this blinked. It procced blink and he double blinked into a trap.Fix inc, hopefully.

Comment by Tekuta

Just been playing with the Target Dummies to see if I can figure this out. Flame Shock is pretty obvious when it procs as shown below:

To test if the Staff can duplicate an Overload, I tried alternating Lava Burst and Chain Lightning on a test dummy for 15 minutes or so. (The log can be found here on World of Logs). Since Elemental Overload results in a damage reduction on a spell, it is possible to spot where a proc originated from. To keep this simple I have only looked at the Lava Burst damage, while using the Chain Lightning to distinguish the separate casts. For example:

It is possible to obtain a double proc (one from the staff, and one from overload). A total of five of these occurred, and a crude estimate puts the occurrence at one in twenty. Based on the above these can be divided into:

The last three are pretty similar, and as far as I can tell, they all have a separate crit chance. Theoretically it could be possible to obtain a quadruple lava burst, but I can't say I have noticed any. It may well be impossible because it means some lucky burst results in one shotting a player. A bit of further testing reveals that flame shock will result in all three of these critting. Some pretty nasty burst there, particularly if its an instant cast!

As for the dps increase that you can expect from the staff, I've noticed this most on Baeleroc. On this fight my dps has gone from ~25k ish to ~36k.

If anyone cares to add to/refute the above I would certainly be interested to see your numbers :)

Comment by rothbart

Disclaimer: I haven't actually done much reading about the proc, so if I am wrong drop some downvotes on me.

@citrique

DTW is providing our raiders with at bare minimum 10% (affliction lock, Baleroc) and upwards of 18-20% (spriest / lock, Alysrazor). It was 15% for spriest / lock / 2 moonkins on our last heroic Ragnaros kill. Its proc becomes better when you pass plateaus for dot ticks for such classes, and the 4.3 gear enables this.

I think you are incorrect with interpretation that Dragonwrath benefits classes differently (if that is what I am to assume from reading your post). A 15% chance to duplicate an arcane blast would yield 1.15x the number of arcane blasts. Similarly a shadowpriest would get 15% more SWPs, 15% more VTs 15% more mind blasts, etc. etc. ultimately yielding 1.15x non-proc damage.

You have probably overlooked the fact that in a Recount or WoL damage log, you will see Wrath of Tarecgosa damage as dot duplicates only, as a proc from mind blast would be recorded in the log as 'Mind Blast'. A heavy dot class would appear to gain a large benefit, while an arcane mage would appear to get no procs whatsoever.

Pets obviously would not get procs on their attacks, a demonology lock with something like 30% of damage from pet would get a lesser benefit than that of a moonkin or arcane mage where very little comes from trees / mirror images.

Comment by Rhinemonster

If you ask me, Blizzard needs to make a legendary weapon for every class in every expansion, that would show true workmanship and please a lot of fans.

Also Legendarys are always very hard to obtain, so it could still mean that not everyone is running around Orgrimmar or Stormwind with the latest and greatest legendary weapon...

It is a lot of work but come on Blizzard, what are we paying you for?

PS--- Where is the legendary Polearm weapon at? Huh Blizz? Huh?

Comment by DeGoudenEeuw

This legendary is damn cheap. Literally every day there is a Tarecgosa event in the city and it is not uncommon to have two events per day. When I queue for battlegrounds there's sometimes up to 3 Dragonwraths on my team alone, never mind the opposing one.

In my server's top guild every caster has Dragonwrath, and I mean every, even their elemental shaman has Dragonwrath. Second to top guild is also like that.

lol @ the downvotes. Ever since I posted this comment Dragonwraths continued to be made at least once per day and yesterday evening I saw two consecutive events, even. I'm really starting to become tired of the blue dragon above Orgrimmar when I see her every freaking day. If you decide to downvote this because you haven't got Dragonwrath "just yet" it only proves my point further about this legendary being one of the easier ones to get.

Comment by Mookosh

Enhancement shamans have never had a legendary period...dont even try to say Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros because such a hammer would always go to the warrior or the paladin, never the shaman...

How bout a nice one handed axe Blizzard? Better yet, a set of legendary fist weapons? That would be nice....show us some love...

Spoken like someone who didn't actually play durring Vanilla. You should look up Unbreakable some day. Sulfuras was most deffinitely the ret Palladin and Enhancement Shaman legendary in vanilla WoW.

During Vanilla, Enhancement used 2h weapons and were Itemized for Str (same 1 for 2 Str-to-AP ratios as pallies and warriors).Sulfuras was BiS for Enhancement, and every raid group that was serious about raiding had at least 1 (sometimes 2 for 40man's) enhance shaman that every melee fought to be in the group with because of Windfury totem.

Before 2.0 gave Arms Blood Frenzy, 1h DW Fury was the only competitive PvE spec for raiding DPS warriors back then

As result, Sulfuras (or the eye in any case) was pretty much auto-looted to Paladins and Shaman back then.

Edit: Pallies were Alliance only and shammies were Horde only, prior to TBC, so again there was no cross-class competition for it. Horde Warriors got a HoR only when none of the Shaman wanted it.

Comment by dkitty

this is what I've found out through testing with this staff:

1. If it procs on a DoT it will cast a new, instant spell for Arcane damage called Wrath of Tarecgosa. This deals damage exactly equal to that of the tick of the DoT that that it copied. From my experience, this has never crit. 2. If it procs on a hard casted spell (ie, Fireball, Lightning Bolt, etc) or any spell with travel time (Hot Steak! and instant lava burst) it will send a copy of the spell at the same target. This copy can crit or miss like any other spell.

Will update as I get more accurate info.

Comment by Thelion

Don't get why it's still considered a Mount ... Was odd when I did not find it when looking for it in the Staff section.PS: I know about the use effects, but it's still a Staff !

Comment by Kapoeira

Some people may have gotten it already as well. However, I found this while lurking on Xfire. Full quest event and event with Kalecgos. Really nice.

http:// www. xfire.com/ video/ 4fbdcc/Sorry for the spaces, since this is my first account, I can't post links yet.

Comment by tobindax

The staff is nerfed in 4.3 and a bit pointless to get at the moment.

Comment by citrique

As of 4.3, doing /mountspecial while transformed into Tarecgosa's Visage now has a roar sound (different than that of a normal drake).

Comment by djnat

Testing the staff after 4.3, I can say the proc got nerfed by roughly 3-4%.

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Comment by mummer

Would this staff work for a walock? It might just be me, but so far i've only seen lazerkins and mages with it.

Comment by nkouzmad

Aesthetically, this is hard to get excited about. With Power Torrent it looks the same as everything else.

Comment by FlayOnDarkIron

Hasn't been mentioned yet, but this staff gives you an occasional emote as well:

"The warm embrace of Tarecgosa's presence encircles you."

Branch emote: "The essence of Tarecgosa is with you."Runestaff emote: "You feel a surge of power as Tarecgosa's essence manifests itself."

Comment by mummer

Is it possible to get this staff in pug runs?

Comment by Kthxbb

Just completed this yesterday. Been working on this staff since the first day of 4.2. I am in a 10 man guild that doesn't do much heroic content. By the time we worked on heroic encounters, Dragon Soul came out and it was decided that we should just bulldoze FL normal until I get the staff. So for 10m normal guilds... it took that long. Maybe I could have been a week or two earlier but whatever I am now an owner of this staff.

For the final encounter, a tip I will give to warlocks is to set a portal on the edge of the pool of lava and have your healers spam heal you until you loot the heart in the middle (I didn't get the buff for fire resistance). After that just portal in and you are done. For Alliance turn in the quest at Cathedral Square. I left my raid group to do the turn in as I read somewhere that there's a bug for raid group completion. The whole battle with Ragnaros was not difficult. Set range 8 and stand by yourself. You will know when you will explode so be sure to move away from people. The stacking parts are the "scary" parts of the whole fight, but with the timing of the debuff, you should be fine. Congrats to those who own the staff, but also congrats and big props to the raiders that helped made it happen. Can't thank some of my raiders enough for continually do Firelands even though there was Dragon Soul and no benefits to them in terms of gear in FL.

Comment by Psyches

Since no one has mentioned it anywhere, as discipline priest / atonement: smite can be replicated for damage, but the second smite does not proc atonement, so no extra healing.

Mana Burn will proc it, and burn both times.

Comment by felldown

Found a nice guide that would be helpful for players. thanks to wowhead.

Comment by Akumas

ladyofdragons stated that, "...some healers are caster DPS too, and vice-versa. So even if prime/offspec differentiation applies, there's still merit to talking about how this staff would improve a character's performance when healing. After all, if one item can serve two specs, then that's one more item someone else in the raid can have. 10-man raids will likely make this staff available to hybrids and healers faster then 25-mans will, simply because there will be less DPS casters that go first..."

I want to point out that this staff is an extreme pain to obtain in a 10-man raid simply due to the time it takes to complete a single staff. The construction mats drop in much lower quantities in 10-man. The notion that, "10-man raids will likely make this staff available to hybrids and healers faster then 25-mans will, simply because there will be less DPS casters that go first..." is simply not true due to the time it takes to complete one. Our 10-man runs with two casters that benefit greatly from this staff. Translation - nobody else in the raid will ever see this staff for another spec. Why? Well, we're still working on completing the first staff for our warlock, and it's 2/6/2012 as of me making this post. We've been farming Madness for five weeks now, and we're working on heroics, and we're STILL going back into Firelands once a week to try and complete this damn staff. It's a joke, especially compared to the legendary rogue daggers. Our rogue already has her tier 2 legedary daggers and is working towards completing her final step. Meanwhile, our warlock still needs another 120 Smouldering Essence and the debuff Rag kill. For reference, we were farming Firelands for a long time before Dragon Soul even came out. We've put our time in.

If you're in a 25-man raid, your chances of obtaining this staff are greater simply due to the fact that the staff's construction mats drop in higher quantities (double the rate). This means that 25-mans have to schedule and gather together fewer times. Bottom line is that more staffs are distributed in 25-mans, and if your performance and attentance is high, you'll have a better shot at this staff, regardless of whether or not you're a hybrid.

Comment by Akumas

ladyofdragons stated that, "...some healers are caster DPS too, and vice-versa. So even if prime/offspec differentiation applies, there's still merit to talking about how this staff would improve a character's performance when healing. After all, if one item can serve two specs, then that's one more item someone else in the raid can have. 10-man raids will likely make this staff available to hybrids and healers faster then 25-mans will, simply because there will be less DPS casters that go first..."

I want to point out that this staff is an extreme pain to obtain in a 10-man raid simply due to the time it takes to complete a single staff. The construction mats drop in much lower quantities in 10-man. The notion that, "10-man raids will likely make this staff available to hybrids and healers faster then 25-mans will, simply because there will be less DPS casters that go first..." is simply not true due to the time it takes to complete one. Our 10-man runs with two casters that benefit greatly from this staff. Translation - nobody else in the raid will ever see this staff for another spec. Why? Well, we're still working on completing the first staff for our warlock, and it's 2/6/2012 as of me making this post. We've been farming Madness for five weeks now, and we're working on heroics, and we're STILL going back into Firelands once a week to try and complete this damn staff. It's a joke, especially compared to the legendary rogue daggers. Our rogue already has her tier 2 legedary daggers and is working towards completing her final step. Meanwhile, our warlock still needs another 120 Smouldering Essence and the debuff Rag kill. For reference, we were farming Firelands for a long time before Dragon Soul even came out. We've put our time in.

If you're in a 25-man raid, your chances of obtaining this staff are greater simply due to the fact that the staff's construction mats drop in higher quantities (double the rate). This means that 25-mans have to schedule and gather together fewer times. Bottom line is that more staffs are distributed in 25-mans, and if your performance and attentance is high, you'll have a better shot at this staff, regardless of whether or not you're a hybrid.

Comment by Jorge123

I wish the mount was learnable since like any other legendary it will become probably outdated in the upcoming expansion.

Comment by paul1088

This mount is usable in battle grounds unlike most other flying mounts.

Comment by Xcalib00r

If you ever want to look like you have the staff u really should just get yourself a Potion of Illusion and drink it right next to someone that has the mount active. The potion will then make u look like the dragon for its full duration. WARNING though: You may have been transformed into the dragon, but you can't fly, so the only thing you can do is walk around.

Comment by nikolakic

I NEED THAT STAFF

Comment by taggme

DOWNLOAD 'CUBAN' addon if you use this staff, it will properly track your DD damage and DoT damage proccs from this staff(unlike recount/Skada)

Comment by Nikeyeia

To-do list:

Premade battleground with a legendary caster and 9 other, random players. Everyone pop Potion of Illusion. Scare the crap out of the opposing team. Win.

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Comment by desec

Did you notice how indicisive Tarecgosa is? It definately happens less and less lately, but a while back Tarecgosa "moved permanently" at least twice a day to her new home... just saying :D

Comment by Krisaff

I was excited to get this on my Shadow Priest, but then I found out that it doesn't proc on melee swings.

Comment by holix12

First Cataclysm Legendary.

Comment by starsofdestiny

This staff really should be BoA. It's really hard to do the quests today if you haven't a core to rush FL every week. In my realm isn't easy to pug a FL raid, everyone already have everything from there. And compared to another cataclysm legendary weapon as rogue's, Terecgosa's it's much more difficult and takes much longer to make it.

Comment by fhait

I've noticed that as a shadow priest, if you can multi-dot several targets in a battleground, and then get out of combat in time to mount up using the 'on use' effect, my s will also be full sized Tarecgosa images.

Interesting visual.

Comment by Marali

Nananea and Sharm made a fantastic fan video of the quest line, if you haven't seen it I highly recommend you check it out. :)

Comment by soulyouth

As of 5.0.4 when the emote "The warm embrace of Tarecgosa's presence encircles you." Shows, it is followed by a female voice saying a couple different phases"I'm with you always""Keep your heart and mind clear""You are a treasure to Azeroth""Your power is great, but you are destined for even greater""Never Give Up"'Fight on, Hope shines thought even the most utter darkness""You are a master of the arcane, but never allow it to have mastery over you""Your deeds will live on forever in the memory of the Blue Dragonflight"

I'll keep updating this list as I hear them.Not sure if the earlier phases of the staff have the sound emotes as well.

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Comment by pendergast4

Does anyone know how to get this?

Comment by Minigunner

Does anyone know if this is a twink item at level 85? I realize there are MOP items with better stats, but none of them have 3 sockets or the proc. Would appreciate some feedback. I have an 85 ele shammy that i want this thing on.

Comment by Olydia

Just got it :) SO AWESOME!

Comment by Asmundr

Sometimes, Tarecgosas Mind whispers the following to you:

- I am with you, always. - You are a treasure to Azeroth. - Your deeds will live on forever in the memory of the Blue Dragonflight. - Fight on! Hope shines through even the most utter darkness. - Never give up! - You are a master of the arcane, but never allow it to have mastery over you. - Your power is great, but you are destined for even greater. - Keep your mind and heart clear.

Comment by banechee

For those lucky owners of Dragonwrath...don't put this staff in the bank quite yet! This staff/mount has one unparalleled advantage over every other mount in the game. When you're in dragon form, you're not considered mounted in the normal sense. No, you can't attack, cast or use items in your bag while in dragon form, buuuuuuuut... /play drumroll...

You can't be knocked off your mount! So it's a good mount to use when traveling in locations that's high in hostile target density like Isle of Thunder or Timeless Isle. Note that you can still be stunned, dizzied (slowed), frozen, etc. but unlike situations where you can commonly get knocked off your mount, once you recover in Dragonwrath form you can keep rolling on at full mount speed.

I haven't quite tested this but it may be possible that this works on other transformative mounts like the Sandstone Drake. However, you can't use the Sandstone Drake in Timeless Isle where you can use Dragonwrath.

Comment by elonoil

You can transform into Tarecgosa (mount) without having the staff equipped while flying using the following macro. You must have Dragonwrath in your inventory.

Usage: drag macro to action bar, left click on the macro, then right click on the macro./equip Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest/use Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest/equip YOUR_DEFAULT_WEAPON

Comment by Falkor

I know this staff is old, but I just got mine tonight on a moonkin. Found out that the proc DOES add solar/lunar power, which is pretty nifty, and didn't see it posted anywhere. Been testing with recount and terocgosa tracker and it does around 4-5% of damage on 10min training dummy tests using standard live rotation (just over 1.1m damage on last test, from about 28m total damage). Obviously not that useful to anyone not still playing 85, but figured I would add it nonetheless

PS for any 85 twinks interested in whether its worth it or not: I got mine in about 7 weeks doing 25 heroic. and in identical average ilvl 440 mop raid gear, only swapping soliantis insect smasher and upgraded umbrella of chi-ji for terocgosa, the dps is darn near identical. so i know ill be sticking with terocgosa for the cool proc chance, epeen/coolness of using a legendary, and the mount use in cities. so id say its worth it, especially if you like having a cata bis set and not just use mop all the time.

Comment by PhoenixIdona

I've been using a macro for a while to be able to use the Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest weapon as a mount but keep my actual weapon equipped. Posting the macros here for others to use. Please note: You will need to click the button twice. First to equip Dragonwrath, second to mount/equip other weapon. Enjoy.

First Macro is for staff users.

/use 16/run local a="Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest" if (IsEquippedItem(a) or InCombatLockdown()) then a="Staff Name" end if not (UnitCastingInfo("player") or IsMounted()) then EquipItemByName(a) end/dismount

Where it says "Staff Name" please shift click on your weapon to insert it into the macro.

Second Macro is for 1h/OH users.

/use 16/run local a=71086 b=0 if (IsEquippedItem(a) or InCombatLockdown()) then a=ItemX b=ItemY end if not (UnitCastingInfo("player") or IsMounted()) then EquipItemByName(a) if not (b==0) then EquipItemByName(b) end end/click BT4Button111

Please note the spots in the Macro where it says a=ItemX and b=ItemY. ItemX needs to be replaced with the item code of your main hand weapon, ItemY needs to be replaced with the item code of your off hand weapon. You can look up the item codes on Wowhead, just know that every version of the weapon (LFR, Flex, Normal, Heroic, Warforged for Norm/Heroic) each have a different code so you will need to find the codes and plug them in.

Please remember: You will need to click the button TWICE. First time it will equip Dragonwrath, second time it will cast Tarcogsa's Visage and then re-equip your starting weapons, i.e the ones you use to kill things with. Enjoy.

Comment by Acusiont

So... This is a hunter weapon, right?

Comment by Duappe

Just wanted to say, that getting this staff took me about five months to get (slacking and pugging FL10hcs at 90, not fast ok, thats not the point) but it is seriously the best thing i have done/have gotten in the game. It changes it, Using it as my primary mount (you need two buttons then, one for the staff and one for your ordinary staff/setup macro) but it is soo worth it, comon, flying around AS a dragon? Priceless. Also, it look good. Very good. And as all that wasn't enough you get SPOILERS Tarecgosa talking to you occasionally END OF SPOILERS i mean that's just awesome. You really feel as a part of the Blue dragonflight! So if you'r in doubt whenever to get it or not, i mean it IS a pretty long and daunting journey, believe me, it's worth it. I'll give the staff 11/10 and i will fly with it to face the iron horde in Draenor. NOTHING can compare.

Comment by desperat

if you like me want to use this staff as a mount i highly recommend this macro

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Comment by johanfrost

So is this mount useable even if the staff is not equipped? PATCH 6.0.3A little dispute with my brother (nothing serious from my side rofl) caused me to wanna know.

Comment by IMissThottbot

I just obtained this staff, and wanted to note, out of interest, that the form you take is NOT identical to Tarecgosa's.

What you become is a reskinned drake modelled after her real and original model.

Tarecgosa herself has wings that connect down her back, rings on her fingers, "chest bling" that extends like armor up past her shoulders, and dragon ears. Your own model has normal dragon wings, no rings, armor that only covers the chest, and no ears. She also has a longer, more slender snout, whereas you'll get a normal stubby drake nose.

Just worth mentioning, I felt. You can see it by comparing the big ghostly Tarecgosa in SW with the drake model you change into, on the screenshots. It's not a complaint, mind, just an observation!

Comment by GuiArashiro

Hey guys, I literally just got the staff and saw a comment saying taht it says something in your chat and then Tarecgosa's voice appears every now and then, but my question is: Does this thing happens if the staff is in your bag, and not equipped?

Comment by Mmaster

For those who cannot live without their tooltips (like me), I made this adjusment to the macro:

#showtooltip Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest/use 16/run local a="71086" if (IsEquippedItem(a) or InCombatLockdown()) then a="Spire of Tectus" end if not (UnitCastingInfo("player") or IsMounted()) then EquipItemByName(a) end/dismount

Enjoy!

Comment by Awestruck

I was told by a GM this quest was no longer available after I made a ticket after non of the steps listed got me on the quest anyone had similar?

Comment by Thorunn86

The 'mount' that the staff gives you is a lower detail, modified drake model to look a bit like Tarecgosa's model. The most obvious part being the wings as the skin membrane does not reach back to the tail. There is also no rings on the mount's fingers, the face detail is much lower, and the rune designs aren't nearly as detailed.

Comment by onelotus

It is March 2015 and I picked up the quest about a month ago and am nearly done.

Comment by PiccoloX83

This is the macro I use on my Priest. Doubles as an easy access burst of speed in non-mount situations.

Note that I used "Dread Raven" in my tooltip only to cause the macro to highlight when I'm in an area I can mount and grey out when I'm in an area I can't. Doesn't require naming any specific weapon, but it does require you use a 2 handed weapon. The "CloseMerchant" line is to prevent accidentally selling either your Dragonwrath or your combat weapon.

Edit: Still looking for a way to prevent this macro from counting raid/dungeon areas that count as "outdoors" yet don't allow mounts.

Comment by gottabethebest1

Just spent 3 solid days learning about this quest chain, how the item works, and getting excited about getting the staff. Looked around for Coridormi today, couldn't find her. Went to talk to Cavern of Time people, and when I went up to Anachronos and he didn't have a quest marker, I realized something:

Death Knights can't use staffs.

Comment by Sentro

Regarding the timewalking dungeons introduced with 6.2 it is important to note that the procc of this staff does still work while doing them. As of this point of time this works with all legendaries, including for example Val'anyr and the legendary cloaks.

TLD;DR:You're doing a timewalking dungeon? Equip this weapon and your other legendaries!

Comment by Herukakaya

For Timewalking Dungeons you can choose red, purple or orange gems. If, like me, you got the staff after it was current and never added any gems, these are some viable options:

Comment by Stumpjunkman

I need help with my Macro please. I use two ilvl 695 baleful greataxes item id 124628 and when I use my macro it only equips one of my weapons. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

/use 16/run local a=71086 b=0 if (IsEquippedItem(a) or InCombatLockdown()) then a=124628 b=124628 end if not (UnitCastingInfo("player") or IsMounted()) then EquipItemByName(a) if not (b==0) then EquipItemByName(b) end end/dismount

Comment by SnowWhitesAngel

To anyone using the mount from this staff for the first time, not sure if this happens for everyone or just me. I'm a level 100 druid, so I have instant flight from but I've noticed when I'm using the mount from this staff when I fly into a new area (ie: from SW to Elwynn) I will be dismounted. That's not a problem for me, because I can save myself by flight form, but just be careful because had I not been a druid, I would have had some very nice falls resulting in a sudden death :D

Comment by angorashi

Had a blast using this staff during the last Timewalking event. Sure is gratifying to be able to get some competitive use out of this vanity staff :)

Comment by cryptid420

Ok, So I come to this page hoping to find information on the staff, how to obtain it and information on the various quests in the questline. Yet it is just everyone posting everything else besides what I am looking for plus various crap not even related to the staff or questline.

Comment by Scaranna

Hopefully at some point we will be able to use the "Use: ..." without having to have the weapon in our bag/equipped.

Comment by skyline33

Here is a simple macro I use to have it as a "mount"Just replace Crystalfire Spellstaff with your current weapon :)You will have to wait ~1sec for the cast to begin, so take that into account!

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Comment by medic833

If anyone is looking to get this and wondering how long will this take here is the answer 9-12 weeks because of the farming and can only run once per week and assuming your running 25 Heroic solo (or only one rolling on mat items). Idealist 9 weeks with 2 weeks for 25 Embers, doing charged shards without killing the bosses reset then starting 3 weeks of 1000 Seething Embers, overlapping into 4 additional weeks for 250 Smouldering Essences. Break down of of farming (assuming you complete outside Firelands quests at the same week of the pre/post farm week):25 Embers - Stage 3 ( All-Seeing Eye ) 2-3 weeks, drops rates 10-14 per week 25 Heroic4 Charged Embers ( Delegation ) Stage 7 - 1-2 weeks, can be done in 0 week as long you perform each of the 4 bosses without killing the 4 bosses and perform each mechanic to get a charged shard1000 Seething Embers Stage 11 ( Time Grows Short) - 3 Weeks Drop rates approx 60 per boss on 25 Heroic giving about 400 per week. On week 3 don't finish instance once you have 1000 exit so you overlap into next250 Smouldering Essences Stage 13 (Heart of Flame) - 4 Weeks Drop rates 10 per Boss on 25 Heroic (only first 6 bosses, doesn't drop off Ragnaros). Given that from previous you completed the 1000 embers you left and still had 3 bosses still up and started the farm that week (30 + 60 per week for 4 weeks after)

Comment by zavsha

Can anyone clarify why at the top of this page it says "Players can win this item when selecting the following class specializations: Monk Mistweaver"?

I thought Monks couldn't start the quest to get the item?

Comment by adamfazai

Any macro to know how far in quest-line we are to obtain it?

Comment by Caladell

This cannot be transmogged, but can you use it to transmog another staff?